Large-area assembly of densely aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes using solution shearing and their application to field-effect transistors.

Park, Steve; Pitner, Gregory; Giri, Gaurav; Koo, Ja Hoon; Park, Joonsuk; Kim, Kwanpyo; Wang, Huiliang; Sinclair, Robert et al. · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Dense alignment of single-walled carbon nanotubes over a large area is demonstrated using a novel solution-shearing technique. A density of 150-200 single-walled carbon nanotubes per micro-meter is achieved with a current density of 10.08 μA μm(-1) at VDS = -1 V. The on-current density is improved by a factor of 45 over that of random-network single-walled carbon nanotubes.