Dose-controlled, floating evaporative self-Assembly and alignment of semiconducting carbon nanotubes from organic solvents

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3460-3466

  Joo, Yongho ^a   Brady, Gerald J ^a   Arnold, Michael S ^a   Gopalan, Padma ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SELF ASSEMBLY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

BULK SOLUTIONS; CHANNEL LENGTH; DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; HYDROPHOBIC SUBSTRATE; MONO-DISPERSED; POLARIZED RAMAN; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; WATER-AIR INTERFACE;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

EID: 84897485202     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la500162x     Document Type: Article

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