Field emission property characterization of individual carbon nanotubes through nanorobotic manipulations and its applications

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 440-445

  Arai, Fumihito ^a   Liu, Pou ^a   Dong, Lixin ^a   Fukuda, Toshio ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Approaching sensors; Carbon nanotubes; Electron beam induced deposition; Field emission

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANOMETALLICS; ROBOTICS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

FIELD EMISSION; NANO DEVICES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 3042533888     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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