Gate-controlled electron transport in coronenes as a bottom-up approach towards graphene transistors

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Diez Perez, Ismael ^a   Li, Zhihai ^a   Hihath, Joshua ^a   Li, Jinghong ^b   Zhang, Chengyi ^c   Yang, Xiaomei ^c   Zang, Ling ^c   Dai, Yijun ^d   Feng, Xinliang ^d   Muellen, Klaus ^d   Tao, Nongjian ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CORONENE; GRAPHENE;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; MOLECULE; NANOANALYSIS; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; SYNTHESIS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84857343558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1029     Document Type: Article

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