Length-Sorted, Large-Diameter, Polyfluorene-Wrapped Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for High-Density, Short-Channel Transistors

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1888-1895

  Hennrich, Frank ^a   Li, Wenshan ^a,b   Fischer, Regina ^a   Lebedkin, Sergei ^a   Krupke, Ralph ^a,b   Kappes, Manfred M ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; chromatography; dielectrophoresis; polymer wrapping; transistor

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHROMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHORESIS; HOLE MOBILITY; NANOTUBES; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; TRANSISTORS; YARN;

AVERAGE DIAMETER; LARGE DIAMETER; ON/OFF RATIO; POLYFLUORENES; POLYMER WRAPPING; SEMICONDUCTING-SWCNTS; SHORT CHANNEL TRANSISTORS; TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84960146080     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05572     Document Type: Article

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