Electric field guided assembly of one-dimensional nanostructures for high performance sensors

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5725-5751

  Brown, Devon A ^a,b   Kim, Jong Hoon ^a   Lee, Hyun Boo ^a   Fotouhi, Gareth ^a   Lee, Kyong Hoon ^b   Liu, Wing Kam ^c,d   Chung, Jae Hyun ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b NanoFacture Inc   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Assembly; Electric field; Nanotubes; Nanowire; Review; Sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861551465     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120505725     Document Type: Review

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