2005/07/17 by Danvers E. Johnston, Mohammad F. Islam, Arjun G. Yodh +2 · 1 citation
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #Fullerene Chemistry and Applications #Graphene research and applications #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/nmat1427
6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Nature Materials
openalex publication_date 2005/07/17 · arxiv created 2005/07/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The excellent properties of transistors, wires, and sensors made from single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) make them promising candidates for use in advanced nanoelectronic systems. Gas-phase growth procedures such as the high pressure decomposition of carbon monoxide (HiPCO) method yield large quantities of small diameter semiconducting SWNTs, which are ideal for use in nanoelectronic circuits. As-grown HiPCO material, however, commonly contains a large fraction of carbonaceous impurities that degrade properties of SWNT devices. Here we demonstrate a purification, deposition, and fabrication process that yields devices consisting of metallic and semiconducting nanotubes with electronic characteristics vastly superior to those of circuits made from raw HiPCO. Source-drain current measurements on the circuits as a function of temperature and backgate voltage are used to quantify the energy gap of semiconducting nanotubes in a field effect transistor geometry. This work demonstrates significant progress towards the goal of producing complex integrated circuits from bulk-grown SWNT material.