US 6,982,519 B2
Individually electrically addressable vertically aligned carbon nanofibers on insulating substrates
Michael A. Guillorn, Knoxville, Tenn. (US); Timothy Eric McKnight, Greenback, Tenn. (US); Vladimir I. Merkulov, Knoxville, Tenn. (US); Anatoli Vasilievich Melechko, Knoxville, Tenn. (US); and Michael Leon Simpson, Knoxville, Tenn. (US)
Assigned to UT-Battelle LLC, Oak Ridge, Tenn. (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/964,270.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/322929, filed on Sep. 18, 2001.
Prior Publication US 2003/0052585 A1, Mar. 20, 2003
Int. Cl. H01J 1/05 (2006.01); H01J 1/14 (2006.01); H01J 19/06 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 313—311 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a substrate including an insulating surface;
a first individually electrically addressable electrically conductive interconnect directly connected to the insulating surface of the substrate;
a first vertically aligned carbon nanofiber grown from the first individually electrically addressable electrically conductive interconnect;
a second individually electrically addressable electrically conductive interconnect directly connected to the insulating surface of the substrate; and
a second vertically aligned carbon nanofiber grown from the second individually electrically addressable electrically conductive interconnect,
wherein the first vertically aligned carbon nanofiber is individually electrically addressable via the first individually electrically addressable electrically conductive interconnect and the second vertically aligned carbon nanofiber is individually electrically addressable via the second individually electrically addressable electrically conductive interconnect.