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2011 Annual Meeting of the Four Corners Section of the APS
Volume 56, Number 11
Friday–Saturday, October 21–22, 2011; Tuscon, Arizona
Session K2: Carbon Nanostructures I
8:30 AM–9:30 AM, Saturday, October 22, 2011
UA Student Union Room: Ventana
Chair: Brian LeRoy, University of Arizona
Abstract: K2.00002 : Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Carbon
Nanotube Templated Metal Microstructures
8:42 AM–8:54 AM
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Authors:
Richard Hansen
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University)
David McKenna
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University)
Brian Jensen
(Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University)
Richard Vanfleet
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University)
Robert Davis
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University)
David Allred
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University)
Our group has used vertically aligned carbon nanotubes as a patterned, three-dimensional microfabrication
scaffold to create CNT composite materials through chemical vapor infiltration. This method, termed carbon
nanotube templated microfabrication (CNT-M), is a novel approach for creating precise high-aspect-ratio
microstructures. In the past, dielectrics (SiO$_{2}$ and SiN$_{x})$ and semiconductors (Si and a-C) were the
materials deposited on the CNT framework. Production and characterization of metallic microstructures is in its
infancy. This study presents electrical, mechanical and structural properties of \textit{metallic} microstructures
made using tungsten and molybdenum carbonyl precursors through the CNT-M process.
10/24/2011 2:58 PM