Carbon Nanotube used to make an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip.
We know how to make carbon nanotubes, but what to do with them is the bigger question. team, A team at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Thursday said they used the technology to make an atomic force microscope (AFM) tip. An AFM is one of the foremost tools for the manipulation of matter in nanoscale. Its most important part is a sharp tip at its end that has been typically composed of silicon or silicon nitride up until now. Very neat stuff and I see semiconductors advancing thanks to carbon nanotubes.
Found in the early 1990s, carbon nanotubes are cylindrical carbon molecules that have been dubbed “dream matters?? thanks to their unique physical and chemical properties that make them useful in very small-scale electron and mechanical applications. Among its potential applications are next-generation field emitters, precision machines, optical elements, molecular filters and artificial muscles. Ahn said the newly discovered technology of bending carbon nanotubes will accelerate its applications in such segments as field emission display and equipment to gauge semiconductors characteristics.
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