Engineering multiwalled carbon nanotubes inside a transmission electron microscope using nanorobotic manipulation

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 508-517

  Dong, Lixin ^a   Shou, Kaiyu ^a   Frutiger, Dominic R ^a   Subramanian, Arunkumar ^a   Zhang, Li ^a   Nelson, Bradley J ^a   Tao, Xinyong ^b   Zhang, Xiaobin ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of South Carolina   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs); Nanorobotic manipulation; Shell engineering; Transmission electron microscope (TEM)

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CARBON; COPPER; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FIELD EMISSION; MICROSCOPES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPORES; NANOROBOTICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; ROBOTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TECHNOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

BUILDING BLOCKS; CARBON NANOTUBES (CNTS); ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS; ELECTRON-BEAM-INDUCED DEPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FIELD EMISSION CURRENTS; MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; NANO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; NANO-SIZED; NANOROBOTIC MANIPULATION; NANOROBOTIC MANIPULATIONS; PROTOTYPING; QUANTUM DOTS; SHELL ENGINEERING; TEST STRUCTURES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (TEM); VAN DER WAALS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 48849084393     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2008.926443     Document Type: Review

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