A nanoscale combing technique for the large-scale assembly of highly aligned nanowires

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 329-335

  Yao, Jun ^a   Yan, Hao ^a   Lieber, Charles M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; YARN;

ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUES; BOTTOM UP; CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY; DEVICE ARRAYS; MISALIGNMENT ANGLES; NANO SCALE; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; SINGLE NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRES;

NANOWIRE;

ARTICLE; NANODEVICE; NANOFABRICATION; NANOSCALE COMBING TECHNIQUE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84877300547     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.55     Document Type: Article

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