Highly enhanced gas sensing in single-walled carbon nanotube-based thin-film transistor sensors by ultraviolet light irradiation

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chen, Tingting ^a   Wei, Liangming ^a   Zhou, Zhihua ^b   Shi, Diwen ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Zhao, Jiang ^a   Yu, Yuan ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Zhang, Yafei ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Gas sensor; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Thin film transistor; UV radiation

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; GAS DETECTORS; NANOTUBES; SILICON WAFERS; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WSI CIRCUITS;

CHANNEL CURRENTS; METALLIC-SWCNTS; ON/OFF RATIO; RANDOM NETWORK; SEMICONDUCTING-SWCNTS; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT); THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFTS); ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT IRRADIATION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84871184427     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-644     Document Type: Article

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