Ultraviolet mem-sensors: flexible anisotropic composites featuring giant photocurrent enhancement

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1956-1963

  Chiolerio, A ^a   Roppolo, I ^a   Cauda, V ^a   Crepaldi, M ^a   Bocchini, S ^a   Bejtka, K ^a   Verna, A ^a   Pirri, C F ^a  

^a IstitutoItaliano di Tecnologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

dielectrophoresis; giantphotocurrent; mem sensors; photopolimerization; ZnO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937525927     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0705-2     Document Type: Article

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