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Process For Aggregation Of Micron-Sized Patterns Of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Forests

Student Name: Hurd, Katherine
Advisor Name: Davis, Robert
Approval Date: 8/1/2008
Report Type: Senior Thesis
Title: Process For Aggregation Of Micron-Sized Patterns Of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Forests
Abstract: Carbon nanotube forests condense when they are saturated with a solvent and then dried. While larger features readily condense into patterned features, smaller features require more delicate shrinking conditions and are highly de- pendant on temperature, solvent type, solvent vapor density, and heating rate. Through optimization of these parameters, nanotube forests can be success- fully densi ed so that they maintain their original patterns, simply becoming thinner and denser. Shrinking micrometer-scaled features allow us to use larger patterns to create extremely small features up to one hundred times smaller than the original features.
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