Synthesis of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes on patterned silicon wafers

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6705, 1998, Pages 878-881

  Kong, Jing ^a   Soh, Hyongsok T ^b   Cassell, Alan M ^a   Quate, Calvin F ^b   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; METHANE; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DEVICE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; TUBE; VAPOR;

EID: 0032578904     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/27632     Document Type: Article

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