Manipulating connectivity and electrical conductivity in metallic nanowire networks

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5966-5971

  Nirmalraj, Peter N ^a,b   Bellew, Allen T ^a   Bell, Alan P ^a   Fairfield, Jessamyn A ^a   McCarthy, Eoin K ^a   O'Kelly, Curtis ^a   Pereira, Luiz F C ^a   Sorel, Sophie ^a   Morosan, Diana ^a   Coleman, Jonathan N ^a   Ferreira, Mauro S ^a   Boland, John J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

conductivity; Nanowire; network; tunable

Indexed keywords

DEVICE APPLICATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; LOCAL CONNECTIVITY; METALLIC NANOWIRES; NANOWIRE NETWORKS; NETWORK MATERIALS; TUNABLE; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; NANOWIRES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS;

METAL; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; HUMAN; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84869192968     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl303416h     Document Type: Article

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