Anomalous high capacitance in a coaxial single nanowire capacitor

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liu, Zheng ^a   Zhan, Yongjie ^a   Shi, Gang ^a   Moldovan, Simona ^b   Gharbi, Mohamed ^c   Song, Li ^d,e   Ma, Lulu ^a   Gao, Wei ^a   Huang, Jiaqi ^a,f   Vajtai, Robert ^a   Banhart, Florian ^b   Sharma, Pradeep ^c,g   Lou, Jun ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^f TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COPPER; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NANOANALYSIS; NANOFABRICATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMOSTABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPOR; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES;

EID: 84863337282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1833     Document Type: Article

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