Fabrication of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube (sw-cnt) Cantilevers for Chemical Sensing

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am very grateful to my advisor Dr. A. Srivastava for his great guidance, patience and research attitude for this work. His classes and knowledge are very helpful for me to understand the filed of VLSI and Nanotechnology, moreover, he also gave me financial support for one year. I would like to thank Dr. Wanjun Wang and Dr. Hsaio-Chun Wu for being a part of my committee. Dr. Wu also gave me suggestions during these years constantly. Mr. Golden who is the manager in EMDL also helped me a lot in the fabrication. Dr. P. Chen gave me a great opportunity to work in his lab during the third year. I am very thankful to my friends Siva and Jose for their extensive help through my graduate studies at LSU. I also take this opportunity to thank my friends Abhishek Rohit, for their help and encouragement at times I needed them. I would also like to thank all my friends here who made my stay at LSU an enjoyable and a memorable one.