[Research Highlights Vol.77] New TEM Technique Creates 2.8nm Transistor

2022/12/19 by International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA)
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paper · doi:10.48505/nims.3817

Abstract

An international research team at WPI-MANA has used a transmission electron microscope (TEM) to create a 2.8nm transistor consisting of nanochannels embedded in metallic carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which exhibits quantum transport at room temperature.

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