Carbon nanotube memory by the self-assembly of silicon nanocrystals as charge storage nodes

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 7972-7977

  Olmedo, Mario ^a   Wang, Chuan ^b   Ryu, Koungmin ^b   Zhou, Huimei ^a   Ren, Jingjian ^a   Zhan, Ning ^a   Zhou, Chongwu ^b   Liu, Jianlin ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube memory; carbon nanotubes; electrostatic force microscopy; nanocrystal memory; nanocrystal self assembly

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURE; CHARGE STORAGE; DIRECT TUNNELING; ELECTROSTATIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FLOATING GATE MEMORIES; FOWLER-NORDHEIM TUNNELING; MEMORY STRUCTURE; NANOCRYSTAL MEMORY; SELF-ALIGNED; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS;

ELECTRIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC FORCE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GAS SOURCE MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLECULAR BEAMS; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 80054976982     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202377f     Document Type: Article

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