title: Current Progress in the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Type-Selected Horizontally Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
abstract: Exciting electrical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes show promise as a future class of electronic materials, yet the manufacturing challenges remain significant. The key challenges are to determine fabrication approaches for complex and flexible arrangements of nanotube devices that are reliable, rapid, and reproducible. Realizing regular array structures is an important step toward this goal. Considerable efforts have and are being made in this vein, although the progress to date is somewhat modest. However, there are reasons to be optimistic. Positive steps of being able to control not only the spatial location and diameter of the tubes but also their electronic type (chiral control) are being made. Two primary approaches are being exploited to address the challenges. Tube deposition techniques, on the one hand, and direct growth of the desired tube at the target location are being explored. While this review covers both approaches, the emphasis is on recent developments in the direct fabrication of type-selected horizontally aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition.
authors.affiliation: NaMLab gGmbH , Nöthnitzer Strasse 64, D-01187 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Imad
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
authors.affiliation: IFW Dresden , P.O. Box 270116, 01171 Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gemming
authors.affiliation: NaMLab gGmbH , Nöthnitzer Strasse 64, D-01187 Dresden, Germany.|Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), Dresden University of Technology , 01062 Dresden, Saxony, Germany.
authors.forename: Walter M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: NaMLab gGmbH , Nöthnitzer Strasse 64, D-01187 Dresden, Germany.|Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), Dresden University of Technology , 01062 Dresden, Saxony, Germany.|Chair of Nanoelectronic Materials, TU Dresden , D-01062 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mikolajick
authors.affiliation: College of Physics Optoelectronics and Energy & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University , Suzhou 215006, China.|Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing Science and Engineering Centre for Nanocarbons, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China.
authors.forename: Zhongfan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: College of Physics Optoelectronics and Energy & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University , Suzhou 215006, China.|IFW Dresden , P.O. Box 270116, 01171 Dresden, Saxony, Germany.|Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences , M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 34, Zabrze 41-819, Poland.
authors.forename: Mark H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Rümmeli
keywords: CNT etching; SWCNT characterization; single-walled carbon nanotubes; type-selected CNT