Ultra-thin SWNTs Films with Tunable, Anisotropic Transport Properties

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2011-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/1101.3805v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

14 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Advanced Functional Materials

Scientific paper

Directional transport properties at the nanoscale remain a challenge primarily due to issues associated with control over the underlying anisotropy and scalability to macroscopic scales. In this letter, we develop a facile approach based on template-guided fluidic assembly of high mobility building blocks - single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) - to fabricate ultra-thin and anisotropic SWNT films. A major advancement is the complete control over the anisotropy in the assembled nanostructure, realized by three-dimensional engineering of dip-coated SWNT thin films into alternating hydrophilic and hydrophobic micro-line patterns with prescribed intra/inter-line widths and line thicknesses. Variations in the contact line profile results in an evaporation-controlled assembly mechanism that leads to the formation of an alternating, and more importantly, contiguous SWNT network. Evidently, the nanoscopic thickness modulations are direct reflections of the substrate geometry and chemistry. The nanostructured film exhibits significant anisotropy in their electrical and thermal transport properties as well as optical transparency, as revealed by characterization studies. The direct interplay between the anisotropy and the 3D micro-line patterns of the substrate combined with the wafer-level scalability of the fluidic assembly allows us to tune the transport properties for a host of nanoelectronic applications.

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