Journal of Nanomaterials
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 174268, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/174268
Research Article

Effect of Source, Surfactant, and Deposition Process on Electronic Properties of Nanotube Arrays

Dheeraj Jain,1 Nima Rouhi,1 Christopher Rutherglen,1 Crystal G. Densmore,2 Stephen K. Doorn,2 and Peter J. Burke1,3

1Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
2Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering (C-CDE) Group, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
3Department of Printed Electronics, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, Jeonnam 540-742, Republic of Korea

Received 6 May 2010; Accepted 27 September 2010

Academic Editor: Sulin Zhang

Copyright © 2011 Dheeraj Jain et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The electronic properties of arrays of carbon nanotubes from several different sources differing in the manufacturing process used with a variety of average properties such as length, diameter, and chirality are studied. We used several common surfactants to disperse each of these nanotubes and then deposited them on Si wafers from their aqueous solutions using dielectrophoresis. Transport measurements were performed to compare and determine the effect of different surfactants, deposition processes, and synthesis processes on nanotubes synthesized using CVD, CoMoCAT, laser ablation, and HiPCO.