Vertically aligned cdse nanowire arrays for energy harvesting and piezotronic devices

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6478-6482

  Zhou, Yu Sheng ^a   Wang, Kai ^b   Han, Weihua ^a,c   Rai, Satish Chandra ^b   Zhang, Yan ^a   Ding, Yong ^a   Pan, Caofeng ^a   Zhang, Fang ^a   Zhou, Weilie ^b   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,d  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

CdSe nanowire; energy harvesting; piezotronic effect; piezotronic transistor

Indexed keywords

AFM; AFM TIP; CDSE; CDSE THIN FILMS; CONDUCTIVE ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EFFECT OF STRAIN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GROWTH DIRECTIONS; MICA SUBSTRATES; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; NORMAL FORCES; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PIEZOTRONIC EFFECT; SCHOTTKY BARRIERS; SEED LAYER; SELECTED AREA ELECTRON DIFFRACTION PATTERN; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID PROCESS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; WURTZITE STRUCTURE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ENERGY HARVESTING; MICA; NANOWIRES; PLATINUM; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPORS; ZINC SULFIDE;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84864271008     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3022074     Document Type: Article

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