Integration of suspended carbon nanotube arrays into electronic devices and electromechanical systems

Abstract
A synthetic strategy is devised for reliable integration of long suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes into electrically addressable devices. The method involves patterned growth of nanotubes to bridge predefined molybdenumelectrodes, and is versatile in yielding various microstructures comprised of suspended nanotubes that are electrically wired up. The approach affords single-walled nanotube devices without any postgrowth processing, and will find applications in scalable nanotubetransistors (mobility up to 10 000 cm 2 / V s ) and nanoelectromechanical systems based on nanowires.