Year of publication |
2010 |
Title of paper |
Nanopatterning of catalyst by dip pen nanolithography (DPN) for synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNT) |
Authors |
Kang, S.-W., Banerjee, D., Kaul, A.B., and Megerian, K.G. |
Volume |
31(1) |
Pages |
42 - 48 |
Journal |
Scanning: The Journal of Scanning Probe Microscopies |
Carbon nanotubes (CNT) were synthesized on nanopatterned catalysts. The catalyst nanoparticles were obtained using dip pen nanolithography technique. Dip pen nanolithography technique was used to deposit NiCl2 nanopatterns with sub-200 nm feature sizes on a silicon substrate. The deposited features were verified by using lateral force microscopy. The substrate was then placed in a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition instrument to synthesize CNT. The synthesized CNT were characterized using scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. |