Title of Document: Carbon Nanotube Electronics: Growth, Imaging and Electronic Properties Todd Harold Brintlinger, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Directed By: Michael Sears Fuhrer, Associate Professor, Department of Physics This dissertation focuses on growth, fabrication, and electronic characterization of carbon nanotube (CNT) devices. A technique for imaging CNTs on insulating substrates with th...

Nanopatterning techniques have applications across a wide range of experimental sciences, from controlling cell growth and function [ 1 ] to improving the effi ciency of thin fi lm solar cells. [ 2 ] Approaches developed by the microelectronics industry such as photon-, ionand electron-beam lithography are highly refi ned, producing features with dimensions of just tens of nanometers. Unfortuna...

The Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) based lithographic techniques have been demonstrated as an extremely capable patterning tool. Manipulating surfaces, creating atomic assembly, fabricating chemical patterns, imaging topography and characterizing various mechanical properties of materials in nanometer regime are enabled by this technique. In this paper, a qualified overview of diverse lithog...

Nanotechnologies have attracted wide interests and evolved rapidly in the past two decades. They are expected to have transformative impacts on the health, environment, energy, and many other aspects of our society. However, their applications so far are severely hindered by the lack of matured and affordable manufacturing technologies to realize systems in large scales where millions of nanosc...