Conductance enhancement of InAs/InP heterostructure nanowires by surface functionalization with oligo(phenylene vinylene)s

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4111-4118

  Schukfeh, Muhammed Ihab ^a   Storm, Kristian ^b   Mahmoud, Ahmed ^c   Søndergaard, Roar R ^d   Szwajca, Anna ^a,e   Hansen, Allan ^a   Hinze, Peter ^f   Weimann, Thomas ^f   Svensson, Sofia Fahlvik ^b   Bora, Achyut ^a,c   Dick, Kimberly A ^b,g   Thelander, Claes ^b   Krebs, Frederik C ^d   Lugli, Paolo ^c   Samuelson, Lars ^b   Tornow, Marc ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^f PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

heterostructure; InAs; molecular electronics; nanowires; oligo(phenylene vinylene)

Indexed keywords

BACK-GATE VOLTAGES; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; INAS; MODEL CALCULATIONS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR I-V CHARACTERISTICS; OLIGO(PHENYLENE VINYLENE); SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULES;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84878270049     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400380g     Document Type: Article

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