Propulsion of nanowire diodes
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 46 (10), 1623-1624
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b925568k
Abstract
The propulsion of semiconductor diode nanowires under external AC electric field is described. Such fuel-free electric field-induced nanowire propulsion offers considerable promise for diverse technological applications.Keywords
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