Abstract
A novel batch welding of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) onto metallic electrodes is developed by radio frequency induction heating. The experiments had achieved optimum contact between CNTs and metal electrodes, two hundred samples had the same trend of reduction of contact resistance after heating process, and this reduction was irreversible, which demonstrated good reproducibility of induction heating for CNT welding. Because of its non-contact and selective heating, induction heating provide a potential approach to reproducible large-scale fabrication and wide applications of CNTs devices.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant numbers 50875012 & 51075171.
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Chen, M., Song, X., Liu, S. et al. Batch welding of aligned carbon nanotube onto metal electrodes. Microsyst Technol 18, 679–682 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-012-1494-0
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