IBM brings carbon nanotube-based computers a step closer
IBM’s technique can arrange single carbon nanotubes — and sometimes pairs — between two electrical contacts. It’s an essential part of making a transistor in which a nanotube leads from a source on one side to a drain on the other. At left in this is an image of a chip designed to test the technology electrically; at right is a close-up of the nanotubes stretching from one electrical contact to another.
(Credit: IBM)
In the effort to find a replacement for today’s silicon chips, IBM researchers have pushed carbon nanotube technology a significant step ahead.
Carbon nanotubes are very…
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