Technical References – Nanotubes

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Nanotubes - General

E.W. Wong, M.J. Bronikowski, M.E. Hoenk, R.S. Kowlcyk, and B.D. Hunt. "Submicron patterning of iron nanoparticle monolayers for carbon nanotube growth," Chemistry of Materials 17 (2005) 237.

R. Krupke, F. Hennrich, H.v. Lohneysen, and M.M. Kappes. "Separation of metallic from semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes," Science 301 (2003) 344-347.

M. Zheng et al. "DNA-assisted dispersion and separation of carbon nanotubes," Nature Materials 2 (2003) 338-342.

L. An, J.M. Ovens, L.E. McNeil, and J. Liu. "Synthesis of nearly uniform single-walled carbon nanotubes using identical metal containing molecular nanoclusters as catalysts," Journal of the American Chemical Society 124 (2002) 13688-13689.

W. Kim, H.C. Choi, M. Shim, Y. Li, D. Wang, and H. Dai. "Synthesis of ultralong and high percentage of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes," Nano Letters 2 (2002) 703-708.

Y. Zhang et al. "Electric field directed growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes," Applied Physics Letters 79 (2001) 3155-3157.

A. Cassell, J.A. Raymakers, J. Kong, and H. Dai. Large scale CVD synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103 (1999) 6484-6492.

H. Dai et al. "Controlled chemical routes to nanotube architectures, physics, and devices," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103 (1999) 11246-11255.

J. Kong, H. Soh, A.M. Cassell, C.F. Quate, and Hongjie Dai. "Synthesis of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes on patterned silicon wafers," Nature 395 (1998) 878-881.

D.S. Bethune et al. "Cobalt-catalyzed growth of carbon nanotubes with single-atomic-layer walls,"  Nature 363 (1993) 605-607.

S. Iijima and T. Ichihashi. "Single-shell carbon nanotubes of 1-nm diameter," Nature 363 (1993) 603-605.

N. Hamada, S. Sawada, and A. Oshiyama. "New one-dimensional conductors: Graphitic microtubules," Physical Review Letters 68(1992) 1579-1581.

S. Iijima. "Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon," Nature 354 (1991) 56-58.

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Aligned Nanotubes

M. J. Bronikowski. "Longer Nanotubes at Lower Temperatures: The Influence of Effective Activation Energies on Carbon Nanotube Growth by Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition," J. Phys. Chem., in press.

M. J. Bronikowski. "CVD growth of carbon nanotube bundle arrays," Carbon 44 (2006) 2822.

M.J. Bronikowski, H.M. Manohara, and B.D. Hunt. "Growth of carbon nanotube bundle arrays on silicon surfaces,"  J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A 24 (2006) 1318.

G. Zhang, D. Mann, L. Zhang, A. Javey, Y. Li, E. Yenilmez, Q. Wang, J.P. McVittie, Y. Nishi, J. Gibbons, and H. Dai. "Ultra-High-Yield Growth of Vertical Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Hidden Roles of Hydrogen and Oxygen," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 102 (2005) 16141-16145.

K. Hata, D.N. Futaba, K. Mizuno, T. Namai, M. Yumura, and S. Iijima. "Water-Assisted Highly Efficient Synthesis of Impurity-Free Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes," Science 306 (2004) 1362-1364.

S. Huang, X. Cai, and J. Liu. "Growth of millimeter-long and horizontally aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes on flat substrate," Journal of the American Chemical Society 125, (2003) 5636-5637.

B.Q. Wei, R. Vajtai, Y. Jung, J. Ward, R. Zhang, G. Ramanath, and P.M. Ajayen. "Microfabrication technology: Organized assembly of carbon nanotubes," Nature 416 (2002) 495-496.

S. Fan, M.G. Chapline, N.R. Franklin, T.W. Tombler, A.M. Cassell, and H. Dai. "Self-oriented regular arrays of carbon nanotubes and their field emission properties," Science 283 (1999) 512-514.

Z.F. Ren, Z.P. Huang, J.W. Xu, J.H. Wang, P. Bush, M.P. Siegal, and P.N. Provencio. "Synthesis of large arrays of well-aligned carbon nanotubes on glass," Science 282 (1998) 1105-1107.

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Field Emission

H. M. Manohara, M. J. Bronikowski, M. Hoenk, B. D. Hunt and P. H. Siegel . "High-current-density field emitters based on arrays of carbon nanotube bundles," J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 23 (2005) 157.

S. Fan, M.G. Chapline, N.R. Franklin, T.W. Tombler, A.M. Cassell, and H. Dai. "Self-oriented regular arrays of carbon nanotubes and their field emission properties," Science 283 (1999) 512-514.

W.A. de Heer, A. Chatelain, and D. Ugarte. "A carbon nanotube field-emission electron source," Science 270 (1995) 1179-1180.

A.G. Rinzler, J.H. Hafner, P. Nikolaev, L. Lou, S.G. Kim, D. Tománek, P. Nordlander, D.T. Colbert, and R.E. Smalley. "Unraveling nanotubes: Field emission from an atomic wire" Science 269 (1995) 1550-1553.

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Nanotubes of Various Materials

J. Goldberger, R. He, Y. Zhang, S. Lee, H. Yan, H.J. Choi, and P. Yang. "Single-crystal gallium nitride nanotubes," Nature 422 (2003) 599-602.

Y.R. Hacohen, E. Grunbaum, R. Tenne, and J.L. Hutchison. "Cage structures and nanotubes of NiCl2," Nature 395 (1998) 336-337.

N.G. Chopra, R.J. Luyken, K. Cherrey, V.H. Crespi, M.L. Cohen, S.G. Louie, and A. Zettl. " Boron Nitride Nanotubes," Science 269 (1995) 966-967.

Y. Feldman, E. Wasserman, D.J. Srolovitz, and R. Tenne. "High-rate, gas-phase growth of MoS2 nested inorganic fullerenes and nanotubes," Science 267 (1995) 222-225.

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Catalysts

H.C. Choi, S. Kundaria, D. Wang, A. Javey, Q. Wang, M. Rolandi, and H. Dai. "Efficient formation of iron nanoparticle catalysts on silicon oxide by hydroxylamine for carbon nanotube synthesis and electronics," Nano Letters 3 (2003) 157-161.

Y. Li, W. Kim, Y. Zhang, M. Rolandi, D. Wang, and H. Dai. "Growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes from discrete catalytic nanoparticles of various sizes," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105 (2001) 11424-11431.

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Nanotube Devices

P. Avouris. "Carbon Nanotube Electronics," Physics World  20 (2007) 40.

W. Lu and C.M. Lieber. "Nanoelectronics from the bottom up," Nature Materials 6 (2007) 841-850.

Z.H. Chen, J. Appenzeller, Y.M. Lin, J. Sippel-Oakley, A.G. Rinzler, J.Y. Tang, S.J. Wind, P.M. Solomon, and P. Avouris. "An integrated logic circuit assembled on a single carbon nanotube," Science 311 (2006) 1735.

A. Javey, H. Kim, M. Brink, Q. Wang, A. Ural, J. Guo, P. McIntyre, P. McEuen, M. Lundstrom, and H. Dai. "High-K dielectrics for advanced carbon-nanotube transistors and logic gates," Nature Materials 1 (2002) 241-246.

T. Rueckes, K. Kim, E. Joselevich, G. Tseng, C.L. Cheung, and C. Lieber. "Carbon nanotube-based nonvolatile random access memory for molecular computing," Science 289 (2000) 94-97.

R. Martel, T Schmidt, H.R. Shea, T. Hertel, and P Avouris. "Single- and multi-wall carbon nanotube field-effect transistors," Applied Physics Letters 73 (1998) 2447-2449.

S.J. Tans, A.R.M. Verschueren, and C. Dekker. "Room temperature transistor based on a single carbon nanotube," Nature 393 (1998) 49-52.

S.J. Tans, M.H. Devoret, H. Dai, A. Thess, R.E. Smalley, L.J. Geerligs, and C. Dekker. "Individual single-wall nanotubes as quantum wires," Nature 386 (1997) 474-477.

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