Electron-beam-induced deposition with carbon nanotube emitters

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Dong, LX [1 ]
Arai, F [1 ]
Fukuda, T [1 ]
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[1] Nagoya Univ, Dept Micro Syst Engn, Nagoya, Aichi 4648603, Japan
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10.1063/1.1504486
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Electron-beam-induced deposition (EBID) is performed with multiwalled carbon nanotube emitters that are assembled to atomic force microscope cantilevers through nanorobotic manipulations. A typical experiment shows that under 120 V bias, field emission current 2 muA occurs from a nanotube emitter. In comparison with conventional EBID with a Schottky-type electron gun of a field-emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) in the same vacuum chamber, the deposition rate of the nanotube emitter reaches up to 12.2% of that of FESEM although the bias and the emission current are only 0.8% and 1.9% of those of FESEM (15 kV and 106 muA). The concept of parallel EBID is also presented. (C) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
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