Investigation on strain-sensing suspended single-walled carbon nanotube arrays

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 694-698

  Zheng, Fu Zhong ^a,b   Zhou, Zhao Ying ^b   Yang, Xing ^b   Tang, Yi Ke ^a   Wu, Ying ^c  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Band gap; carbon nanotube (CNT) array; gauge factor (GF); hysteresis; linearity

Indexed keywords

ARRAY SENSING; CARBON-NANOTUBE (CNT) ARRAY; ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; GAUGE FACTORS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LINEAR REGION; LINEARITY; METAL ELECTRODES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SENSOR PROPERTIES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; STRAIN SENSING; THERMAL OXIDE LAYER; WELL-ALIGNED;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; GAGES; HYSTERESIS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 79960258180     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2010.2068559     Document Type: Article

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