Influence of electrolyte composition on liquid-gated carbon nanotube and graphene transistors

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 48, 2010, Pages 17149-17156

  Heller, Iddo ^a,b   Chatoor, Sohail ^a   Männik, Jaan ^a   Zevenbergen, Marcel A G ^a   Dekker, Cees ^a   Lemay, Serge G ^a,c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CARBON SURFACE; CELL EXTRACTS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITIONS; GATE CAPACITANCE; GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS; GROWTH MEDIA; HIGH DENSITY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; IONIZABLE GROUPS; MODEL-BASED; NANO SCALE; NANO-CARBON; SCHOTTKY BARRIERS; SENSOR RESPONSE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROLYTES; EXTRACTION; GRAPHENE; IONIC STRENGTH; SENSORS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; CELL EXTRACT; ELECTROLYTE; GRAPHENE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSENSOR; BODY FLUID; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CULTURE MEDIUM; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; IONIC STRENGTH; IONIZATION; LIQUID; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 78650084677     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja104850n     Document Type: Article

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