Substrate-site selective growth of aligned carbon nanotubes
- 4 December 2000
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 77 (23), 3764-3766
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1330751
Abstract
We report highly substrate-site selective growth of carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition from precursors of ferrocene and xylene mixtures. The technique allows us to grow well-aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes preferentially on the SiO2 regions of patterned SiO2/Si substrates prepared by conventional lithography. This eliminates the catalyst predeposition step in the fabrication process. This simple approach may also be applied to build large-scale networks of organized nanotubes on planar substrates.Keywords
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