Shell engineering of carbon nanotube arrays by current driven breakdown

2006 6th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE-NANO 2006

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 901-904

  Subramanian, Arunkumar ^a   Dong, Lixin ^a   Frutiger, Dominic ^a   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Dielectrophoresis; Electric breakdown; Nanoelectromechanical systems

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTROPHORESIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BATCH FABRICATION; CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAYS; LINEAR BEARINGS; SHELL STRUCTURE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 42549164589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/nano.2006.247806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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