Arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes with full surface coverage for high-performance electronics

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 180-186

  Cao, Qing ^a   Han, Shu Jen ^a   Tulevski, George S ^a   Zhu, Yu ^a   Lu, Darsen D ^a   Haensch, Wilfried ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; LOGIC DEVICES; NANOTUBES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; YARN;

ALIGNED ARRAYS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HIGH-PERFORMANCE LOGIC; NANOTUBE DENSITY; PACKING DENSITY; SEMI-CONDUCTING NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; SURFACE COVERAGES;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; FILM; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; NANOARRAY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84874606273     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.257     Document Type: Article

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