Novel freestanding nanotube devices for combining TEM and electron diffraction with Raman and Transport.

A versatile procedure for combining high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron diffraction with Raman spectroscopy and transport measurements on the very same nanotube is presented. For this we prepare free-standing structures on the corner of a substrate by electron beam lithography and an etching process. Further, this procedure makes possible a TEM quality control of nanotubes grown directly on the substrate. © 2005 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]