Seminar: Mehran Vahdani

Carbon nanotube forest from energy conversion to MEMS devices and a laser based single sub 10nm particle analyzer: new developments in nanotechnology

​Mehran Vahdani, The University of British Columbia

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, so called CNT forests, have unique properties that make them excellent candidates in a wide variety of applications ranging from nanotechnology to electronics and photonics. In the first part of this talk, some of the recent novel devices made from CNT forest will be highlighted, followed by introducing an unusual photoemission phenomena exhibited by collective effect of carbon nanotubes in a forest. The second part presents an innovative optical technique allowing to detect real-time single sub 10nm particles.