Thin Film Nanotube Transistors Based on Self-Assembled, Aligned Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Arrays

Citation: Michael Engel, Joshua P. Small, Mathias Steiner, Marcus Freitag, Alexander A. Green, Mark C. Hersam, Phaedon Avouris, ACS Nano (2008), 2, 12, 2445–2452.

Summary: The IBM T.J. Watson Research Center with Northwestern University fabricated thin-film transistors (TFTs) from DGU produced semiconducting CNTs. To confirm the semiconducting purity of the CNTs, the team synthesized 83 single nanotube transistors from the same DGU produced source material. 82 of the 83 transistors were found to contain a semiconducting nanotube, empirically confirming the material’s calculated level (99%) of semiconducting enrichment.