Towards controlled growth of carbon nanotubes from germanium on nanoindented silicon substrates

Andrea Capasso; Eric Waclawik; John M. Bell; Simon Ruffell; Anna Sgarlata; Manuela Scarselli; Maurizio De Crescenzi; Nunzio Motta

doi:10.1109/ICONN.2010.6045242

Towards controlled growth of carbon nanotubes from germanium on nanoindented silicon substrates

Andrea Capasso^*, Eric Waclawik, John M. Bell, Simon Ruffell, Anna Sgarlata, Manuela Scarselli, Maurizio De Crescenzi, Nunzio Motta

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In the present paper, we report on a metal-catalyst-free synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on a pre-patterned Si(001) surface. Arrays of triangular-shaped holes were created by nanoindentation in specific sites of the sample. After germanium deposition and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of acetylene, a few CNTs nucleated and grew from germanium nanoparticles. This result illustrate how it is possible to control the growth of CNTs without the use of a metal catalyst, by leading the assembly of Ge nanoparticles with a patterning technique.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICONN 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Pages	186-188
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICONN.2010.6045242
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	2010 3rd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICONN 2010 - Sydney, NSW, Australia Duration: 22 Feb 2010 → 26 Feb 2010

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Conference	2010 3rd International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICONN 2010
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney, NSW
Period	22/02/10 → 26/02/10

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Capasso, A., Waclawik, E., Bell, J. M., Ruffell, S., Sgarlata, A., Scarselli, M., De Crescenzi, M., & Motta, N. (2010). Towards controlled growth of carbon nanotubes from germanium on nanoindented silicon substrates. In ICONN 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (pp. 186-188). Article 6045242 (ICONN 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICONN.2010.6045242

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