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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hildreth, Owen
• Cola, Baratunde
• Graham, Samuel
• Wong, C. P.

Titel

Conformally coating vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays using thermal decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl

Ist Teil von

• Journal of vacuum science and technology. B, Nanotechnology & microelectronics, 2012-05, Vol.30 (3)

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Conformally coating vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (v-CNT) with metals or oxides can be difficult because standard line-of-sight deposition methods, such as dc sputter coating and electron-beam evaporation, are hindered by the low mean-free-path within the vertically aligned array. In this work, we present a facile method to conformally coat dense arrays of v-CNTs using thermal decomposition of iron pentacarbonyl at 205 °C and 30 mTorr. The resulting coatings were found to be uniform from top-to-bottom across an entire 1 × 1 cm2 array of v-CNTs. The thickness of the deposited coating was found to be 2–3 nm/cycle and the resulting film thickness were found to be 13 ± 3 nm after five cycles and 55 ± 5 nm after 20 cycles. This process demonstrates that metal organic chemical vapor deposition can be used to fabricate conformal coatings on v-CNTs.