Design parameters for voltage-controllable directed assembly of single nanoparticles

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 40, 2013, Pages

  Porter, Benjamin F ^a   Abelmann, Leon ^b,c   Bhaskaran, Harish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Korean Institute of Science and Technology Europe   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY PROCESS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DIRECTED ASSEMBLY; NANO-ASSEMBLIES; NANO-MANUFACTURING; NONLINEAR POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATION; OPTIMUM DESIGN PARAMETERS; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE;

ASSEMBLY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GATING AND FEEDING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84884261246     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/40/405304     Document Type: Article

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