Method of manufacturing tubular carbon molecule and tubular carbon molecule, method of manufacturing recording apparatus and recording apparatus, method of manufacturing field electron emission device and field electron emission device, and method of manufacturing display unit and display unit

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a tubular carbon molecule capable of regularly aligning a carbon nanotube with a finer spacing is provided. A catalyst is arranged on a material substrate () made of a semiconductor such as silicon (Si) and including iron (Fe) as a catalyst through the use of melting according to a modulated heat distribution (). The heat distribution () is formed, for example, through diffracting an energy beam () by a diffraction grating (). As a method of arranging the catalyst, for example, iron may be deposited in a planar shape or a projection shape in a position corresponding to the heat distribution (), or the deposited iron may be used as a master to be transferred to another substrate. A carbon nanotube is grown through the use of the arranged catalyst. The grown carbon nanotube can be used as a recording apparatus, a field electron emission device, an FED or the like.