Contact transfer of aligned carbon nanotube arrays onto conducting substrates
- 16 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 89 (16)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2356899
Abstract
The authors demonstrate the fabrication of different architectures of carbon nanotubes on conducting substrates via contact transfer of nanotubes using low temperature solders. Lithographically patterned multiwalled carbon nanotube arrays grown on silica substrates by chemical vapor deposition methods are transferred onto solder coated substrates. Both negative and positive patterns can be obtained by changing the printing parameters. Good wetting and electrical contacts are confirmed by measuring their field emission properties. This method can be used to construct nanotube structures of different shapes and dimensions over large areas on substrates of choice and could be a feasible process to integrate nanotubes into various devices.Keywords
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