Electron-microscopic imaging of single-walled carbon nanotubes grown on silicon and silicon oxide substrates

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Homma, Yoshikazu ^a,c   Takagi, Daisuke ^b   Suzuki, Satoru ^a   Kanzaki, Ken Ich ^a   Kobayashi, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical vapour deposition; Single walled carbon nanotubes; Suspended growth

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON OXIDES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; DIRECT IMAGING; HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGES; LOWER ENERGIES; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING; MICROSCOPY IMAGING; SILICON OXIDE SUBSTRATES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE; SUSPENDED GROWTH;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 33750219031     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: 14779986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/54.suppl_1.i3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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