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Nanotube arrays made to order

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With the help of the Langmuir–Schaefer method, semiconducting carbon nanotubes can be forced into extremely dense arrays with an almost perfect parallel alignment that can be used to create high-performance transistors.

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Figure 1: Fabricating ultradense arrays of semiconducting carbon nanotubes8.

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