Laser-induced nanoscale thermocapillary flow for purification of aligned arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12641-12649

  Du, Frank ^a   Felts, Jonathan R ^b   Xie, Xu ^a   Song, Jizhou ^c   Li, Yuhang ^d   Rosenberger, Matthew R ^a   Islam, Ahmad E ^a   Jin, Sun Hun ^f   Dunham, Simon N ^a   Zhang, Chenxi ^g   Wilson, William L ^a   Huang, Yonggang ^e   King, William P ^a   Rogers, John A ^a  

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

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

aligned array; carbon; infrared; laser; nanotube; purification; SWNT; TFT; thin film transistor

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; CARBON; INFRARED RADIATION; LASERS; NANOTUBES; POPULATION STATISTICS; PURIFICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THIN FILMS;

ALIGNED ARRAYS; DEGRADED PERFORMANCE; SELECTIVE ABSORPTION; SEMICONDUCTING SWNTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); SWNT; THERMOCAPILLARY EFFECT; THERMOCAPILLARY FLOW;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84919719534     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505566r     Document Type: Article

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