Selective fabrication of quasi-parallel single-walled carbon nanotubes on silicon substrates

Nanotechnology. 2010 Oct 1;21(39):395602. doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/39/395602. Epub 2010 Sep 1.

Abstract

We have fabricated single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) arrays, about 85% of which are semiconducting. Fe nanoparticles, which were used as a catalyst, were produced simply and cheaply from Wistar rat blood. The SWNT arrays generally grow parallel to the gas flow. Hundreds of devices with varying SWNT density in the channel were measured and we found that the on-off ratio for such devices with the quasi-parallel, semiconducting-rich SWNTs in the channel can be easily increased via an electrical breakdown method. Thus, large-scale fabrication of FET devices is possible simply by controlling the width of the channel. Finally, we determined that the mobility of the devices reached 3900 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Electrochemical Techniques
  • Erythrocytes / chemistry
  • Iron / blood
  • Iron / chemistry*
  • Iron / isolation & purification
  • Metal Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
  • Nanotechnology / methods*
  • Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry*
  • Nanotubes, Carbon / ultrastructure
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar
  • Silicon

Substances

  • Nanotubes, Carbon
  • Iron
  • Silicon