News tagged with nanotube transistor

All-carbon-nanotube transistor can be crumpled like a piece of paper

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the flexible yet robust properties of carbon nanotubes, researchers have previously fabricated transistors that can be rolled, folded, and stretched. Now a team from Japan has made ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Engineers build first sub-10-nm carbon nanotube transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have built the first carbon nanotube (CNT) transistor with a channel length below 10 nm, a size that is considered a requirement for computing technology in the next decade. Not ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (36) | comments 32 | with audio podcast feature

New path to flex and stretch electronics: Researchers develop solution-based fabrication technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable promises to revolutionize a number of industries and make "smart devices" nearly ubiquitous. Among the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Printed CNT transistor circuits may lead to cheaper OLED displays

(PhysOrg.com) -- While flexible OLED displays have begun appearing in some cell phones, the technology is still too expensive to be widely used in consumer electronics. In one of the latest attempts to enable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers demonstrate fully printed carbon nanotube transistor circuits for displays

Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several advantages over LCDs, including ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Carbon nanotube enabled vertical organic light-emitting transistor paves way for next-gen consumer electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technology that makes your smart phone's display screen fast, bright and lightweight could be coming to your television or laptop, thanks to a new type of light emitting transistor created by University ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Carbon nanotube transistors could lead to inexpensive, flexible electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, researchers have been developing carbon nanotube-based thin-film transistors (TFTs) in the hopes of creating high-performance, flexible, transparent devices, such as e-paper and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 6 | with audio podcast feature

Carbon nanotubes as transistor material

Swiss researchers have built a transistor whose crucial element is a carbon nano-tube, suspended between two contacts, with outstanding electronic properties. A novel fabrication approach allowed the scientists ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers print field-effect transistors with nano-infused ink

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University researchers have discovered thin films of nanotubes created with ink-jet printers offer a new way to make field-effect transistors (FET), the basic element in integrated circuits.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Paper supercapacitor could power future paper electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- All those paper transistors and paper displays that scientists have been designing can now be powered by an onboard power source, thanks to the development of a new paper supercapacitor. Designed ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 12 | with audio podcast feature

Fujitsu Announces World's First Operation of 100W-Class Amplifiers Employing Carbon Nanotubes

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that, using carbon nanotubes as heat-dissipation material in amplifier transistors, Fujitsu has become the first to achieve the successful operation of high-frequency, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

New techniques make carbon-based integrated circuits more practical

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford engineers have built what they believe is a chip with the most advanced computing and storage elements made of carbon nanotubes to date by devising a way to root out the stubborn ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 4

Researchers uncover recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes hold promise for delivering medicine directly to a tumor; acting as sensors so keen they detect the arrival or departure of a single electron; replacing costly platinum in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Could a paper transistor offer an alternative to silicon?

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology advances, scientists look for ways to enhance electronic applications and devices. Indeed, electronics are getting smaller and more diverse. And as this happens, there is an increased requirement ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 6 feature