Selective tuning and optimization of the contacts to metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3801-3806

  Nirmalraj, Peter N ^a   Boland, John J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

conductance imaging atomic force microscopy (CI AFM); contact resistance; single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)

Indexed keywords

AFM; CONDUCTIVE PROBE; ELECTRICAL INTERFACE; LOADING FORCE; METAL ELECTRODES; SELECTIVE TUNING; VOLTAGE PULSE;

ATOMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OPTIMIZATION; PALLADIUM; PROBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 77955523853     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100432f     Document Type: Article

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