Highly uniform carbon nanotube nanomesh network transistors

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1320-1326

  Choi, Sung Jin ^a   Bennett, Patrick ^b,c   Lee, Dongil ^d   Bokor, Jeffrey ^b,e  

^a Kookmin University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; highly uniform; nanomesh; network; solution process; thin film transistor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939999690     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0623-8     Document Type: Article

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