First Nano, a division of CVD
Equipment Corporation , announced today the shipment of an ET3000-BN
Chemical Vapor Deposition System to the Center for Functional
Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The
ET3000-BN system was configured specifically for Boron Nitride
Nanotubes (BNNT's) and is, to the best of our knowledge, the first
commercial system offered for this type of material growth.
EasyTube3000 system
CFN is one of five nanoscale science research centers
established by the US DOE Office of Basic Energy Science to provide
state-of-the-art capabilities for the fabrication and study of
nano-scale materials. The CFN features strong in-house scientific
programs while offering broad access to its capabilities and
collaboration through an active user program. This increases the
exposure of First Nano deposition equipment to a broad range of users
from University, Government and Industrial Research Laboratories, here
in the US, and abroad.
BNNT's have attracted more attention from researchers in
recent years because of their unique electronic properties, high
thermal conductivity, chemical resistance and high strength to weight
mechanical properties. It has been proposed that BNNT will have wide
applications in nano-electronic devices, thermal transfer and high
strength composite materials.
To date, BNNT's have been made in only a few research
laboratories by plasma-arc, laser ablation or chemical vapor
deposition. It remains a challenge to control the diameter, length,
uniformity and purity of the synthesized BNNT's because of their
critical growth conditions. First Nano's EasyTube ET3000-BN system
provides this precise control of pressure, chemical delivery and
temperature in excess of 1500 Celsius for BNNT's synthesis using a
liquid Boron source, Diborane and Ammonia. This system further expands
our First Nano equipment product line designed for "enabling tomorrow's
technology(TM)," today.