• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.146-150
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• 2004

We researched carbon nanotube(CNT) cartridge as a CNT sample for the fabrication of nanotweezer which is composed of a couple of single CNT tip. Our CNT cartridge was made by dielectrophoretic methods, a kind of micromanipulation technique using electric field. Therein we intended to fabricate the CNT cartridge with just conventional function generators and a set of simple electrode. A knife edge and a flat metal electrode were employed as a couple of electrode, and these electrode pair faced each other with the gap. When the gap is filled with CNT suspension, we induced AC electric field into the gap. Then CNTs was attached on the sharp edge in knife edge by dielectrophoresis. This knife edge with attached CNTs is called as the CNT cartridge.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1164-1167
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• 2005

This paper is about the carbon nanotube(CNT) samples called as CNT cartridges. The CNT cartridges are useful to make it better to fabricate the nano-sized devices like nanoprobes and nanotweezers through physical attachment. To make these cartridges, we need to align CNTs and to purify them from raw material. There is a variety of methods to align 1-dimensional nanostructures like nanotubes and nanowires. In this review, we mainly focused on the methods using electric field. And we will introduce various researches in relation to the CNT cartridges and the fabrication methods using the CNT cartridges and nanomanipulation techniques.