First computer based on carbon nanotube technology - Materials Today
Toward a new generation of energy-efficient electronics.A team of Stanford engineers has built a basic computer using carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that has the potential to launch a new generation of electronic devices that run faster, while using less energy, than those made from silicon chips.This unprecedented feat culminates years of efforts by scientists around the world to harness this promising material.
It was roughly 15 years ago that carbon nanotubes were first fashioned into transistors, the on-off switches at the heart of digital electronic systems.
But a bedeviling array of imperfections in these carbon nanotubes has long frustrated efforts to build complex circuits using CNTs.(...)
