Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-96956-6
Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis
2017
Nanomaterials have significant use in sensor applications, specifically gas sensors due to their fine-tuning capability for desired sensor performance by controlling nanostructures. Silicon nanowires (Si NWs) are one of these nanostructures that has become popular due to its established fabrication, compatibility and great performance. While Si NWs have been studied widely for gas sensing applications, their geometry optimization and utilizing these structures as scanning field ionization current microscopy has not been explored.
Electrical engineering; Physics
Pure sciences;Applied sciences;Device;Field ionization;Nanowire;Semiconductor;Silicon