Multimode resistive switching in single ZnO nanoisland system

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Qi, Jing ^a   Olmedo, Mario ^b   Zheng, Jian Guo ^c   Liu, Jianlin ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

^c University of California Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; IMPEDANCE; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84882573454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02405     Document Type: Article

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