Patterned growth of vertically aligned organic nanowire waveguide arrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1630-1636

  Zhao, Yong Sheng ^a   Zhan, Peng ^a   Kim, Jaemyung ^a   Sun, Cheng ^a   Huang, Jiaxing ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical sensor; Organic nanowire; Patterning; Vertical array; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

ARRAY WAVEGUIDE; CHEMICAL VAPOR; LOCALLY EXCITED; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; NANO-SIZED; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; ORGANIC DYE; ORGANIC NANOWIRES; PATTERNED GROWTH; PATTERNING; PHYSICAL VAPOR TRANSPORT; SELECTIVE GROWTH; SUBSTRATE SURFACE; SURFACE ENERGIES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; VAPORS; WAVEGUIDES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 77950102604     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901567z     Document Type: Article

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