Highly deformable liquid-state heterojunction sensors

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ota, Hiroki ^a,b,c   Chen, Kevin ^a,b,c   Lin, Yongjing ^a,b,c   Kiriya, Daisuke ^a,b,c   Shiraki, Hiroshi ^a,b,c   Yu, Zhibin ^a,b,c   Ha, Tae Jun ^a,b,c,d   Javey, Ali ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIC LIQUID; OXYGEN;

DEFORMATION; MIXING; SENSOR;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; HUMIDITY; LIQUID; LIQUID STATE HETEROJUNCTION SENSOR; OXYGEN SENSING; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84923194944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6032     Document Type: Article

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