PLoS ONE (Jan 2012)

Carbon nanotube based 3-D matrix for enabling three-dimensional nano-magneto-electronics [corrected].

  • Jeongmin Hong,
  • Eugenia Stefanescu,
  • Ping Liang,
  • Nikhil Joshi,
  • Song Xue,
  • Dmitri Litvinov,
  • Sakhrat Khizroev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0040554
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 7
p. e40554

Abstract

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This letter describes the use of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT)-based arrays with estimated 2-nm thick cobalt (Co) nanoparticles deposited inside individual tubes to unravel the possibility of using the unique templates for ultra-high-density low-energy 3-D nano-magneto-electronic devices. The presence of oriented 2-nm thick Co layers within individual nanotubes in the CNT-based 3-D matrix is confirmed through VSM measurements as well as an energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS).