Vacuum filtration based formation of liquid crystal films of semiconducting carbon nanotubes and high performance transistor devices

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 2014, Pages

  King, Benjamin ^a   Panchapakesan, Balaji ^a  

^a Small Systems Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Louisville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

field effect transistors; liquid crystals; nanotube network; optical anisotropy; Schottky barrier transistors; semiconducting nanotubes; work function

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; CONDUCTIVE FILMS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HOLE MOBILITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID FILMS; MICROFILTRATION; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; PLASTIC FILMS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; TRANSISTORS; VACUUM; WORK FUNCTION;

AQUEOUS SURFACTANT SOLUTIONS; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; NANOTUBE NETWORKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; SCHOTTKY BARRIER TRANSISTORS; SEMI-CONDUCTING NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; SHEET RESISTANCE MEASUREMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 84898657783     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/17/175201     Document Type: Article

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