Remote doping and Schottky barrier formation in strongly quantum confined single PbSe nanowire field-effect transistors

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4328-4334

  Oh, Soong Ju ^a   Kim, David K ^a   Kagan, CheriE R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Band transport; Colloidal nanowires; Field effect transistor; Remote doping; Schottky barrier

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; BAND TRANSPORT; COLLOIDAL NANOWIRES; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IONICITIES; LOW TEMPERATURES; P-TYPE; SCHOTTKY BARRIERS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SURFACE OXYGEN;

NANOWIRES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84864712594     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3009382     Document Type: Article

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