Semiconducting enriched carbon nanotube aligned arrays of tunable density and their electrical transport properties

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6297-6305

  Sarker, Biddut K ^a   Shekhar, Shashank ^a   Khondaker, Saiful I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

aligned array; dielectrophoresis; semiconducting carbon nanotube; solution processed; transistors

Indexed keywords

AC DIELECTROPHORESIS; ALIGNED ARRAYS; APPLIED VOLTAGES; DENSE ARRAYS; DEVICE MOBILITIES; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FABRICATED DEVICE; LINEAR DENSITY; NANOTUBE DENSITY; ON-OFF RATIO; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMI-CONDUCTING NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 80052072475     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201314t     Document Type: Article

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