Local heating method for growth of aligned carbon nanotubes at low ambient temperature

S. Dittmer; S. Mudgal; O. A. Nerushev; E. E.B. Campbell

doi:10.1063/1.2981398

Local heating method for growth of aligned carbon nanotubes at low ambient temperature

S. Dittmer, S. Mudgal, O. A. Nerushev, E. E.B. Campbell

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Abstract

We use a highly localized resistive heating technique to grow vertically aligned multiwalled nanotube films and aligned single-walled nanotubes on substrates with an average temperature of less than 100°C. The temperature at the catalyst can easily be as high as 1000°C but an extremely high temperature gradient ensures that the surrounding chip is held at much lower temperatures, even as close as 1 μm away from the local heater. We demonstrate the influence of temperature on the height of multiwalled nanotube films, illustrate the feasibility of sequential growth of single-walled nanotubes by switching between local heaters and also show that nanotubes can be grown over temperature-sensitive materials such as resist polymer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	834-837
Number of pages	4
Journal	Low Temperature Physics
Volume	34
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2981398
State	Published - 2008

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Financial support from the Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning (SSF), the EU (STREP projects CANEL and NANORF), Vetenskapsredet (VR) and the Wallenberg Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

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Local heating method for growth of aligned carbon nanotubes at low ambient temperature

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