Hydrothermally formed functional niobium oxide doped tungsten nanorods

Nanotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 49, 2013, Pages

  Yu, Jerry ^a   Yuan, Liu ^a   Wen, Hao ^b   Shafiei, Mahnaz ^c   Field, Matthew Richard ^d   Liang, Jia ^e   Yang, Jin ^e   Liu, Zhi Fu ^b   Wlodarski, Wojtek ^d   Motta, Nunzio ^c   Li, Yong Xiang ^b   Zhang, Gengmin ^e   Kalantar Zadeh, Kourosh ^d   Lai, Peter To ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTION MECHANISM; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH; IDEALITY FACTORS; RELATIVE DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; SCHOTTKY BARRIER HEIGHTS; TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTIC; TRAP ENERGY LEVELS;

HYDROGEN; NIOBIUM OXIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR METAL BOUNDARIES; TUNGSTEN;

NANORODS;

EID: 84888424031     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/49/495501     Document Type: Article

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