Device-scale perpendicular alignment of colloidal nanorods

Nano Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 195-201

  Baker, Jessy L ^a   Widmer Cooper, Asaph ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b   Geissler, Phillip L ^a   Alivisatos, A Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Grazing incidence x ray diffraction; Nanorod; Self assembly; Vertical alignment

Indexed keywords

GRAZING-INCIDENCE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; PEDOT:PSS; ROD-SHAPED; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; THEORETICAL MODELING; THROUGH-DRYING; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; CONTROL RODS; DIFFRACTION; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOCRYSTALS; NANORODS; THIN FILM DEVICES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

NANOMATERIAL; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; ELECTRONICS; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY;

COLLOIDS; ELECTRONICS; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTORS; TEMPERATURE; X-RAYS;

EID: 74849106145     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl903187v     Document Type: Article

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