Superior Nanotube Film for High Performance Field Effect Transistors
UW-Madison researchers have developed a method to make a dense, highly aligned film of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. The s-SWCNTs are applied in controlled ‘doses,’ which allows for the rapid sequential deposition of narrow films or ‘stripes’ with continuous control over width, density and periodicity. The film can be incorporated in high performance field effect transistors and other devices including displays, sensors, biosensors and heterojunction devices (e.g., solar cells).
Principal Investigator: Mike Arnold
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Papers
- Quasi-Ballistic Carbon Nanotube Array Transistors with Current Density Exceeding Si and GaAs (2016)
- Dose-Controlled, Floating Evaporative Self-assembly and Alignment of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes from Organic Solvents (2014)
- Polyfluorene-Sorted, Carbon Nanotube Array Field-Effect Transistors with Increased Current Density and High On/Off Ratio (2014)
- High Performance Transistors via Aligned Polyfluorene-Sorted Carbon Nanotubes (2014)