Dip-pen nanolithography of electrical contacts to single-Walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3543-3551

  Wang, Wechung Maria ^a   LeMieux, Melburne C ^a   Selvarasah, Selvapraba ^b   Dokmeci, Mehmet R ^b   Bao, Zhenan ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Dip pen nanolithography; Gold electrode; Nanofabrication; Patterning; Scanning probe lithography

Indexed keywords

DIP-PEN NANOLITHOGRAPHY; GOLD ELECTRODES; NANOFABRICATION; PATTERNING; SCANNING PROBE LITHOGRAPHY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GOLD; NANOLITHOGRAPHY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PROBES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 73249135162     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900984w     Document Type: Article

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