Microfabricated Striplines for Measuring the High Frequency Response of Carbon Nanotubes

Michael Fine

Advisor: Dr. Beth Parks

Carbon nanotubes are ideal one-dimensional conductors that are being developed as elements in molecular electronics. Understanding their high frequency electrical properties is instrumental to this development. In this study, transmission lines are utilized to measure these high frequency properties. Using a mode-locked, ti-sapphire laser, short pulses are created and detected as they propagate down each transmission line. The absorption of specific frequencies in these pulses by single nanotubes will provide information about the tube’s high frequency characteristics. This project is ongoing. Microfabrication was completed at Cornell’s Nanofabrication Facility.