The electron transport properties of a very long (20 micron) CVD-grown nanotube are reported. In this device the transport is dominated by intrinsic scattering processes at room temperature. The room temperature hole mobility is 20,000 cm/Vs, exceeding that of technologically-relevant semiconductors. The mobility increases with decreasing temperature, and is estimated to be greater than 180,000...

Semiconducting materials such as CdSe, CdS, PbS and GaP are included in crystalline zeolite Y and mordenite and structurally flexible ethylenemethacrylic acid copolymer solid matrices. EXAFS anal sis reveals formation of while the polymer matrices allow agglomeration of larger semiconducting particles. Zeolite anchored structures are distinctively different to small particles with bulk crystal ...

Quick and simple methods to detect the type of life threatening microbial species are very essenti al in food and water contaminated with bacteria. Recently, by utili zi ng the semiconducting polymeric thin films prepared on si licon macroporous substrates a new technology for detection of micro-organisms has been developed. The advantages of the polymeric devices are the ease of fabrication , ...

Flexible transistors with semiconducting carbon nanotubes offer better mobility and stability than current organic material transistors for applications in flexible display and sensor devices. With carbon nanotubes as the semiconducting material, the transistors offer a higher performance due to the extraordinary electrical properties of singlewalled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). However, conventio...

We discuss practical aspects of Kelvin probe force microscopy ~KFM! which are important to obtain stable images of the electric surface potential distribution at high spatial resolution ~,100 nm! and high potential sensitivity ~,1 mV! on conducting and nonconducting samples. We compare metal-coated and semiconducting tips with respect to their suitability for KFM. Components of the metal coatin...

Recently, a new family of low-cost x-radiation detectors have been developed, based on semiconducting polymer diodes, which are easy to process, mechanically flexible, relatively inexpensive, and able to cover large areas. To test their potential for radiotherapy applications such as beam monitors or dosimeters, as an alternative to the use of solid-state inorganic detectors, we present the dir...

Electromechanical coupling is a topic of current interest in nanostructures, such as metallic and semiconducting nanowires, for a variety of electronic and energy applications. As a result, the determination of structure-property relations that dictate the electromechanical coupling requires the development of experimental tools to perform accurate metrology. Here, a novel micro-electro-mechani...

This thesis presents an integrated study of high efficiency photoanodes for water splitting using silicon and iron-oxide. The fundamental limitations of silicon to water splitting applications were overcome by an ultrathin iron-oxide film stack and a pH-adjusted electrochemical environment. It was experimentally demonstrated that this functional photoanode has very strong photoactivity exceedin...

Photovoltaics (PV) is a method of converting solar energy into direct current electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect. Cracking in PV panels can cause performance degradation panels. In this study, new computational methodology, peridynamics utilised to investigate cracking behaviour Peridynamics based on integro-differential equations, and it very suitab...