A New Theoretical Method for Transport Processes in Nanosensoristics

Abstract:

The approach for converting nanoscale mechanical energy into electrical energy using piezoelectric nanowire arrays has been shown by a deflection of the nanowires via a corrugated electrode operated up and down by ultrasounds. I have performed an analytical method for describing the most important quantities concerning transport phenomena; it predicts very high initial diffusion of charge. This behaviour appears via mechanical external device stresses, which assumes therefore the typical characteristics of a nanosensor. With this method it is possible to deduce interesting informations about the device sensitivity, focusing on the important correlation between sensitivity and high initial diffusivity of these materials at nanometric state.

• Periodical: Journal of Nano Research (Volume 20)
• Pages: 143-149
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.20.143
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Paolo di Sia
• Keywords: Diffusion, Frequency-Dependent Complex Conductivity, Nanodevices, Nanosensors, Semiconducting Oxide, Theoretical Models

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