Controlled placement of highly aligned carbon nanotubes for the manufacture of arrays of
nanoscale torsional actuators

T D Yuzvinsky; A M Fennimore; A Kis; A Zettl

doi:10.1088/0957-4484/17/2/015

Nanotechnology

Controlled placement of highly aligned carbon nanotubes for the manufacture of arrays of nanoscale torsional actuators

T D Yuzvinsky^1,2,3, A M Fennimore^1,2, A Kis^1,2 and A Zettl^1,2,3

Published 14 December 2005 • IOP Publishing Ltd
Nanotechnology, Volume 17, Number 2 Citation T D Yuzvinsky et al 2006 Nanotechnology 17 434 DOI 10.1088/0957-4484/17/2/015

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¹ Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

² Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

³ Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

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Received 15 September 2005
Published 14 December 2005

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Abstract

We have fabricated ordered arrays of nanoscale torsional actuators consisting of metal mirrors bonded to precisely oriented multiwall carbon nanotubes. The fabrication is facilitated by a new nanotube positioning method which employs localized electron beam activation of polymer residue on a silicon oxide surface.

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