Spatially resolved Hall effect measurement in a single semiconductor nanowire

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 718-722

  Storm, Kristian ^a   Halvardsson, Filip ^a   Heurlin, Magnus ^a   Lindgren, David ^a   Gustafsson, Anders ^a   Wu, Phillip M ^a   Monemar, Bo ^a   Samuelson, Lars ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM; HALL EFFECT MEASUREMENT; NANO-SCALE GEOMETRIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY HARVESTING; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SPATIALLY RESOLVED;

NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; DEVICES; GEOMETRY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84869089839     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.190     Document Type: Article

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