Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Automated circuit fabrication and direct characterization of carbon nanotube vibrations

  • G. Zeevi,
  • M. Shlafman,
  • T. Tabachnik,
  • Z. Rogachevsky,
  • S. Rechnitz,
  • I. Goldshtein,
  • S. Shlafman,
  • N. Gordon,
  • G. Alchanati,
  • M. Itzhak,
  • Y. Moshe,
  • E. M. Hajaj,
  • H. Nir,
  • Y. Milyutin,
  • T. Y. Izraeli,
  • A. Razin,
  • O. Shtempluck,
  • V. Kotchtakov,
  • Y. E. Yaish

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12153
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Integrating carbon nanotubes into electronic devices requires quick and non-invasive imaging of the nanostructures for precision positioning. Here, the authors use the base of the nanotubes to nucleate the growth of optically visible organic nanocrystals, which thus enables simple microscopy.