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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2003
Applicants:
Pulickel M. Ajayan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Ramanath Ganapathiraman, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Anyuan Cao, Troy, NY (US);
Inventors:
Pulickel M. Ajayan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Ramanath Ganapathiraman, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Anyuan Cao, Troy, NY (US);
Assignee:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C23C 16/00 (2006.01); B05D 5/00 (2006.01); B05D 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of controllably aligning carbon nanotubes to a template structure to fabricate a variety of carbon nanotube containing structures and devices having desired characteristics is provided. The method allows simultaneous, selective growth of both vertically and horizontally controllably aligned nanotubes on the template structure but not on a substrate in a single process step.