Semiconductor-like sensitivity in metallic ultrathin gold nanowire-based sensors

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 18676-18682

  Roy, Ahin ^a   Pandey, Tribhuwan ^a   Ravishankar, N ^a   Singh, Abhishek K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GOLD; NANOWIRES;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL SPECIES; EMPIRICAL PARAMETERS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GOLD NANOWIRE; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SENSING MECHANISM; ULTRA-THIN;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906238314     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5042052     Document Type: Article

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