Transfer and alignment of random single-walled carbon nanotube films by contact printing

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 933-938

  Liu, Huaping ^a,b   Takagi, Daisuke ^a,c   Chiashi, Shohei ^a,d   Homma, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Array; Carbon nanotubes; Transfer manipulation

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; CONTACT PRINTING; GROWTH SUBSTRATES; HIGH UNIFORMITY; METAL MESH; REGULAR ARRAY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SIMPLE METHOD; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON; TEM; TRANSFER PROCESS;

CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; MESH NETWORKING; PRINTING; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 77649116896     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn901741y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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