Building and testing carbon nanotubes and their architectures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4590, Issue , 2001, Pages 121-130

  Vajtai, R ^a   Wei, B Q ^a   Ramanath, G ^a   Ajayan, P M ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Chemical vapor deposition (CVD); Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS); Nanocomposites

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUBSTRATES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

NANOTUBE ARRAYS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0035770876     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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