Influence of external electric field on piezotronic effect in ZnO nanowires

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2390-2399

  Xue, Fei ^a   Zhang, Limin ^a   Feng, Xiaolong ^a   Hu, Guofeng ^a   Fan, Feng Ru ^a   Wen, Xiaonan ^b   Zheng, Li ^b   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

external electric field; piezotronic effect; ZnO nanowires

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937976475     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0749-3     Document Type: Article

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