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Transistors made up of carbon nanotubes CNT have demonstrated excellent current-voltage characteristics which outperform some high-grade silicon-based transistors. A continuously tunable energy barrier across semiconductor interfaces is…

We propose a semi-suspended device structure and construct nanogapped, hysteresis-free field-effect transistors (FETs), based on the van der Waals stacking technique. The structure, which features a semi-suspended channel above a…

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Recent experiments about the low temperature behaviour of a Single Wall Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) showed typical Coulomb Blockade (CB) peaks in the zero bias conductance and allowed us to investigate the energy levels of interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We fabricated reproducible high transparency superconducting contacts consisting of superconducting Ti/Al/Ti trilayers to gated single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). The reported semiconducting SWCNT have normal state differential…

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We describe a method to fabricate clean suspended single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) transistors hosting a single quantum dot ranging in length from a few 10s of nm down to $\approx$ 3 nm. We first align narrow gold bow-tie junctions on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-15 J. O. Island , V. Tayari , S. Yigen , A. C. McRae , A. R. Champagne

In most envisioned applications, full utilization of a graphene-carbon nanotube (CNT) construct requires maintaining the integrity of the graphene layer during the CNT growth step. In this work, we exhibit an approach towards controlled CNT…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-13 Kitu Kumar , Youn-Su Kim , Xin Li , Junjun Ding , Frank T. Fisher , Eui-Hyeok Yang

We report results on the rectification properties of a carbon nanotube (CNT) ring transistor, contacted by CNT leads, whose novel features have been recently communicated by Watanabe et al. [Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 2928 (2001)]. This paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Cuniberti , J. Yi , M. Porto

Carbon nanotube (CNT) Josephson junctions in the open quantum dot limit exhibit superconducting switching currents which can be controlled with a gate electrode. Shapiro voltage steps can be observed under radiofrequency current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -P. Cleuziou , W. Wernsdorfer , S. Andergassen , S. Florens , V. Bouchiat , Th. Ondarcuhu , M. Monthioux

An evaluation of the gate capacitance of a field-effect transitor (FET) whose channel length and width are several ten nanometer, is a key point for sensors applications. However, experimental and precise evaluation of capacitance in the aF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-16 Nicolas Clement , Katsuhiko Nishiguchi , Akira Fujiwara , Dominique Vuillaume

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have the potential to revolutionize the field of organic bioelectronics. To date, most of the reported OECTs include p-type (semi-)conducting polymers as the channel material, while n-type OECTs…

We have used the mechanical motion of a carbon nanotube (CNT) as a probe of the average charge on a quantum dot. Variations of the resonance frequency and the quality factor are determined by the change in average charge on the quantum dot…

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are quasi-1D nanostructures that display both high thermal conductivity and intriguing low-dimensional phonon transport phenomena. In comparison to the advances made in the theoretical calculation of the lattice…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Qianru Jia , Yuanyuan Zhou , Xun Li , Lucas Lindsay , Li Shi

With a view to optimising the design of carbon-nanotube (CNT) windmills and to maximising the internal magnetic field generated by chiral currents, we present analytical results for the group velocity components of an electron flux through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-05 C. J. Lambert , S. W. D. Bailey , J. Cserti

Using self-consistent quantum transport simulation on realistic devices, we show that InAs band-to-band Tunneling Field Effect Transistors (TFET) with a heavily doped pocket in the gate-source overlap region can offer larger ON current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-17 Kartik Ganapathi , Youngki Yoon , Sayeef Salahuddin

By sequential feeding of catalyst materials, it is revealed that the active growth sites are at the bottom of the carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and that catalyst particles are constantly encapsulated into nanotubes from the bottom. This gives a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-19 Rong Xiang , Guohua Luo , Weizhong Qian , Qiang Zhang , Yao Wang , Fei Wei , Qi Li , Anyuan Cao

Large-scale fully interconnected ring carbon nanotube (CNT) networks were first prepared using thermo chemical vapor deposition in nano-channel network templates of porous anodic alumina. This conductive CNT network film consists of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhi-An Ren , Jun Akimitsu

Carbon nanotubes are a fraction of the size of transistors used in today's best microchips, as it could reduce power demands and heating in next electronics revolution. Present study investigates the electronic and magnetic structure of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-01-09 Sanjeev Gautama , P. Thakur , S. Augustine , J. K. Kang , J. -Y. Kim , N. B. Brookes , K. Asokan , Keun Hwa Chae

It is shown that the band structure of single-wall semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNT) is analogous to relativistic description of electrons in vacuum, with the maximum velocity $u$= $10^8$cm/s replacing the light velocity.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wlodek Zawadzki

A real-space quantum transport simulator for carbon nanoribbon (CNR) MOSFETs has been developed. Using this simulator, the performance of carbon nanoribbon (CNR) MOSFETs is examined in the ballistic limit. The impact of quantum effects on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gengchiau Liang , Neophytos Neophytou , Mark S. Lundstrom , Dmitri E. Nikonov

Using field-effect transistors (FETs) to explore atomically thin magnetic semiconductors with transport measurements is difficult, because the very narrow bands of most 2D magnetic semiconductors cause carrier localization, preventing…

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