Lateral bending of tapered piezo-semiconductive nanostructures for ultra-sensitive mechanical force to voltage conversion

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 26, 2013, Pages

  Araneo, Rodolfo ^a   Falconi, Christian ^b,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH OUTPUT VOLTAGE; MECHANICAL SENSING; PIEZOELECTRIC COEFFICIENT; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; PIEZOELECTRIC NANOSTRUCTURES; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL; ULTRA SENSITIVES; VOLTAGE CONVERSION;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY HARVESTING; NANOWIRES; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84878727786     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/26/265707     Document Type: Article

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