Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber on a silicon nitride membrane - first try

Melechko, A.V., T.E. McKnight, M.A. Guillorn, V.I. Merkulov, B. Ilic, M.J. Doktycz, D.H. Lowndes, and M.L. Simpson,  Vertically aligned carbon nanofibers as sacrificial templates for nanofluidic structures. Applied Physics Letters, 2003. 82(6): p. 976-978.


This result was magical. Only now, after publishing ion flux paper I understand why this experiment worked at all. These nanofibers are grown on a SiN membrane, an insulator. The membrane is stretched over a window in Si chip. This somehow provided sufficient ion flux to help with alignment.

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