Patent ID: 7754608

Claim:
A manufacturing method for the integration of nanostructures into a microchip structure, said method comprising: providing said microchip structure with a structural layer on a substrate; wherein said structural layer comprises anchors connected to the substrate and a sequence of freestanding indentations between said anchors, wherein each freestanding indentation is placed between two anchors in order for the anchors to dissipate heat from the freestanding indentations, wherein said freestanding indentations and said anchors form a current path through said structural layer, and wherein, in said current path, said freestanding indentations are electrically arranged in series; heating said freestanding indentations by a current flowing through the current path via contact pads; and using resistive heating by said current for growing said nanostructures on said freestanding indentations on the structural layer by a synthesis method consisting of chemical vapor deposition of hydrocarbon gases in a heated environment.