Effect of source, surfactant, and deposition process on electronic properties of nanotube arrays

  • Authors:

  • Dheeraj Jain;Nima Rouhi;Christopher Rutherglen;Crystal G. Densmore;Stephen K. Doorn;Peter J. Burke

  • Affiliations:

  • Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA;Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA;Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM;Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA and Department of Printed Electronics, Sunchon National Un ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Nanomaterials - Special issue on low-dimensional carbon nanomaterials: synthesis, properties, and applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The electronic properties of arrays of carbon nanotubes from several different sources differing in the manufacturing process used with a variety of average properties such as length, diameter, and chirality are studied. We used several common surfactants to disperse each of these nanotubes and then deposited them on Si wafers from their aqueous solutions using dielectrophoresis. Transport measurements were performed to compare and determine the effect of different surfactants, deposition processes, and synthesis processes on nanotubes synthesized using CVD, CoMoCAT, laser ablation, and HiPCO.