Paper-mediated controlled densification and low temperature transfer of carbon nanotube forests for electronic interconnect application

• We report on the fabrication and characterization of densified and transferred carbon nanotube forests for electronic interconnect application. A simple, low cost and quality method is developed for densifying vertically-aligned carbon nanotube (VA-CNTs) forests at room temperature. Commercially available paper is utilized in this work to serve as a solvent carrier. Highly densified CNT bundles are formed by the sorption of evaporative liquid from the paper into carbon nanotube forests. An average Young’s modulus increase from approximately 15.8 to 111.9 MPa is extrapolated from the measured load–displacement curves in the compression tests of the as-densified VA-CNTs. Subsequent low temperature transfer method is used to transfer the VA-CNT bundles onto the target substrate. Four-probe measurement of the transferred VA-CNTs shows resistance of 3.70 ± 0.04 Ω of each CNT bundle.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Nanoteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Nano-technology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Post-growth processing

Young’s modulus

Densification

Carbon nanotube transfer

Carbon nanotube resistance

Carbon nanotube

Publication and Content Type

art (subject category)

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