Thermal analysis for laser selective removal of metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes

Articles you may be interested in Electrical and thermal transport in metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes on insulating substrates Stability of ion implanted single-walled carbon nanotubes: Thermogravimetric and Raman analysis Chirality selection of single-walled carbon nanotubes by laser resonance chirality selection method Appl. Large diameter single-wall carbon nanotubes obtained by pulsed laser vaporization AIP Conf. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been envisioned as one of the best candidates for future semiconductors due to their excellent electrical properties and ample applications. However, SWNTs grow as mixture of both metallic and semiconducting tubes and this heterogeneity hampers their practical applications. Laser radiation shows promises to remove metallic SWNTs (m-SWNTs) in air under an appropriate condition. We established a scaling law, validated by finite element simulations, for the temperature rise of m-SWNTs under a pulsed laser with a Gaussian spot. It is shown that the maximum normalized m-SWNT temperature rise only depends on two non-dimensional parameters: the normalized pulse duration time and the normalized interfacial thermal resistance. In addition, the maximum temperature rise is inversely proportional to the square of spot size and proportional to the incident laser power. These results are very helpful to understand the underlying physics associated with the removal process and provides easily interpretable guidelines for further optimizations. V C 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.