Precise Assembly and Electrical Contact of MWCNT Based on AC Dielectrophoresis and Robotic Nanomanipulation Technology

Author

Tian, Xiaojun ; Wang, Yuechao ; Xi, Ning ; Dong, Zaili ; Yu, Peng ; Liu, Lianqing ; Li, Wenjung

Author_Institution

Shenyang Inst. of Autom., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Shenyang

fYear

2006

fDate

18-21 Jan. 2006

Firstpage

928

Lastpage

931

Abstract

Nowadays research on single CNT based nanoelectronic device arises much interest among researchers, but in the fabrication of CNT based nanoeletronic device, one of the key technical problems is to realize precise assembly and electrical contact between CNT and microelectrode. For solving the problem, first AC dieletrophoresis (DEP) method is used to coarsely position batch of CNTs near the microelectrode, then AFM based robotic nanomanipulation method is used to precisely position, assembly and make electric contact of the selected CNT. MWCNT assembly and electric contact experiments verify the effectiveness of these two methods´ integration.

Keywords

carbon nanotubes; electrical contacts; electrophoresis; manipulators; nanoelectronics; nanopositioning; nanotube devices; AC dielectrophoresis; carbon nanotubes; electrical contact; nanoeletronic device; precise assembly; robotic nanomanipulation; Assembly systems; Chemical technology; Conducting materials; Contacts; Dielectrophoresis; Fabrication; Microelectrodes; Nanoscale devices; Organic materials; Robotic assembly; AC DEP; MWCNT; Precise assembly; Robotic nanomanipulation; electrical contact;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, 2006. NEMS '06. 1st IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhuhai

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0139-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0140-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEMS.2006.334567

Filename

4135100