Shaping nanoelectrodes for high-precision dielectrophoretic assembly of carbon nanotubes

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 449-456

  Xu, Didi ^a   Subramanian, Arunkumar ^b   Dong, Lixin ^c   Nelson, Bradley J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly; Carbon nanotube; Dielectrophoresis; Electric field; Geometry

Indexed keywords

DEP FORCE; DIELECTROPHORESIS; DIELECTROPHORETIC; DIELECTROPHORETIC ASSEMBLY; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; ELECTRODE PAIRS; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; HIGH-PRECISION; LOCAL GEOMETRY; MOTION TRAJECTORIES; NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; NANO-ELECTRODES; NANOELECTRONIC CIRCUITS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GEOMETRY; NANOELECTRONICS;

DIELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 67949114113     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2009.2015295     Document Type: Article

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