A complete scheme for creating predefined networks of individual carbon nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2666-2671

  Abrams, Ze'ev R ^a   Ioffe, Zvi ^a   Tsukernik, Alexander ^a   Cheshnovsky, Ori ^a   Hanein, Yael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ROBUST CONTROL; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

NON-SURFACE-SPECIFIC TECHNIQUES; SILICON PILLARS; SPECTROSCOPIC MAPPING;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34948875930     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl071058f     Document Type: Article

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31. Yields of bridging nanotubes approaching 100% were particularly attainable between pillars with the CNTs bridging the gap between them in the direction of the gas flow within the CVD tube furnace. However, SWCNTs growing in a perpendicular direction to the gas flow were also found in large numbers. Creating smaller pillar tops, as in ref 17, enables one to limit the number of suspended SWCNTs, and many arrays of suspended SWCNTs, with nearly unitary SWCNTs between the pillars, were created upon smaller fabricated pillars. Furthermore, by incorporating the methods implied in ref 20, one should be able to further optimize the method described here.