• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.594-598
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• 2008

The metal catalyst particles which there is as impurities on a tip part of carbon nanotube (CNT) are not good to apply it to a nano-electronic device. It was very important the opening of CNT-tip to fix a target bio material and a material to accept in CNT in a biosensor, so we performed $HNO_3$ wet etching to remove the metal catalyst particle which there was on a tip part of CNT grown up in the study and observed the opened CNT-tip with etching time. We synthesized the CNTs using a HF-PECVD method and choses the CNT length of 700 nm for the application of nano-electronic device such as a biosensor etc.. We observed the opened CNT-tip with wet etching times of $HNO_3$ (10, 30, 60 min). From the results, we observed that the CNT-tip was opened with the increase of wet etching time lively. In case of CNTs etched during 60 min, we confirmed that there was not the ratio of Ni included in CNTsI as catalyst. Conclusively, in the case of CNT etched for 60 minutes, it is completely good for application of a biosensor and, in addition, the metal-free CNTs will contribute to the application of other nanoelectronic devices.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.353-353
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• 2007

탄소나노튜브(CNT)의 tip 부분에 존재하는 금속 촉매 입자들은 불순물로써 나노전자소자에 응용하는데 좋지 않은 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 또한, 바이오센서에서 target 바이오 물질과 반응하는 물질을 CNT에 고정시키기 위해서는 CNT-tip을 개방시키는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 성장된 CNT의 tip부분에 존재하는 금속 촉매 입자의 제거와 CNT-tip을 개방하기 위해 $HNO_3$의 농도 (20, 40, 60)와 etching 시간 (5, 10, 15, 20, 25 min)에 따라 최적의 조건을 찾는 실험을 하였다.