Modulated Nanowire Structures for Exploring New Nanoprocessor Architectures and Approaches to Biosensing
Contributors: Lieber, Charles M.; Park, Hongkun; Cohen, Adam
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: For the last decade, semiconducting nanowires synthesized by bottom-up methods have opened up new opportunities, stimulated innovative scientific research, and led to applications in materials science, electronics, optics, and biology at the nanoscale. Notably, nanowire building blocks with precise control of size, structure, morphology, and even composition in one, two, and three dimensions can successfully demonstrate high-performance electrical characteristics of field-effect transistors (FETs) and highly sensitive, selective, label-free, real-time biosensors in the fields of nanoelectronics and nano-biosensing, respectively. This thesis has focused on the design, synthesis, assembly, fabrication and electrical characterization of nanowire heterostructures for a proof-of-concept nanoprocessor and morphology-modulated kinked nanowire molecular nanosensor.
Notes: Keywords: biosensor, electrochemical sensor, nanowire circuit, nanowire synthesis, Semiconductor nanowire.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013