Patterned growth of single-walled carbon nanotube arrays from a vapor-deposited Fe catalyst

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 4238-4240

  Peng, H B ^a   Ristroph, T G ^b   Schurmann, G M ^b   King, G M ^b   Yoon, J ^b,c   Narayanamurti, V ^a   Golovchenko, J A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; IRON; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SUBSTRATES;

FOCUSED ION BEAM MACHINE; SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; SUBMICRON;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 0346150159     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1627935     Document Type: Article

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