Polyfluorene-sorted, carbon nanotube array field-effect transistors with increased current density and high on/off ratio

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11614-11621

  Brady, Gerald J ^a   Joo, Yongho ^a   Wu, Meng Yin ^a   Shea, Matthew J ^a   Gopalan, Padma ^a   Arnold, Michael S ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment; Conductance; Contact resistance; Field effect transistor; Mobility; Semiconducting

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CARRIER MOBILITY; CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSISTORS;

CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; CONTROLLED ALIGNMENT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FETS); POLYFLUORENE DERIVATIVE; SEMICONDUCTING; SEMICONDUCTING-SWCNTS; SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRONICS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNTS);

CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84912557957     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5048734     Document Type: Article

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