High-sensitivity accelerometer composed of ultra-long vertically aligned barium titanate nanowire arrays

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Koka, Aneesh ^a   Sodano, Henry A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM DERIVATIVE; BARIUM TITANATE NANOWIRE; NANOWIRE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCELEROMETER; ARRAY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ACCELEROMETRY; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; GROWTH; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84887277586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3682     Document Type: Article

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