Using nanoscale thermocapillary flows to create arrays of purely semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 347-355

  Jin, Sung Hun ^a   Dunham, Simon N ^a   Song, Jizhou ^b   Xie, Xu ^a   Kim, Ji Hun ^a   Lu, Chaofeng ^c,d   Islam, Ahmad ^a   Du, Frank ^a   Kim, Jaeseong ^a   Felts, Johnny ^a   Li, Yuhang ^d   Xiong, Feng ^a   Wahab, Muhammad A ^e   Menon, Monisha ^a   Cho, Eugene ^a   Grosse, Kyle L ^a   Lee, Dong Joon ^a   Chung, Ha Uk ^a   Pop, Eric ^a   Alam, Muhammad A ^e   King, William P ^a   Huang, Yonggang ^d   Rogers, John A ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; LOGIC GATES; NANOTUBES; ORGANIC COATINGS; YARN;

COMPLEX CIRCUITS; HORIZONTAL ARRAYS; LOW TEMPERATURES; METALLIC CARBON NANOTUBES; QUARTZ SUBSTRATE; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMOCAPILLARY FLOW; TOWARD INTEGRATION;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY FLOW; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; HEATING; LOW TEMPERATURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE TENSION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOCAPILLARY FLOW;

EID: 84877584158     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.56     Document Type: Article

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