Electronic logic gates from three-segment nanowires featuring two p-n heterojunctions

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Nan ^a,b   Chen, Songhua ^a,b   Ouyang, Canbin ^a   Yu, Yanwen ^a,b   Liu, Taifeng ^a,b   Li, Yongjun ^a   Liu, Huibiao ^a   Li, Yuliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

conjugated; Logic gate; Organic inorganic hybrid; P n heterojunctions; Polymers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC LOGIC; INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; NANO-DEVICES; NANOELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; ORGANIC/INORGANIC HYBRIDS; P-N HETEROJUNCTIONS; P-N JUNCTION; SINGLE NANOWIRES;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; POLYMERS;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 84884236247     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2013.36     Document Type: Article

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