Fabrication of single-walled carbon nanotube Schottky diode with gold contacts modified by asymmetric thiolate molecules

Carbon

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1298-1304

  Huang, Leihua ^a   Chor, Eng Fong ^a   Wu, Yihong ^a   Guo, Zaibing ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRICAL CONTACTS; CURRENT IDEALITY FACTOR; FORWARD CURRENTS; GOLD CONTACTS; METHANETHIOL; REVERSE CURRENTS; REVERSE LEAKAGE CURRENT; SCHOTTKY BARRIER HEIGHTS; SCHOTTKY CONTACTS; SCHOTTKY DIODES; THIOLATES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DIODES; FABRICATION; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; WORK FUNCTION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 74249112394     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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