Lab Tours: Nanofabrication Laboratory

The tour of the nanofabrication laboratory focuses on how electrical contacts to individual carbon nanotubes (which are wires of only a few atoms in diameter) can be made. Tools for imaging carbon nanotubes (atomic force microscope and scanning electron microscope), patterning nanoscale electrodes (electron beam lithography), and electrical measurements will be demonstrated. There will also be an introductory discussion of carbon nanotubes and how their atomic structure affects their electronic properties, and what applications of carbon nanotubes are currently being explored.

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