Manipulating Local Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes have many emerging technological uses, from strengthening lightweight composite materials to reducing voltage requirements in field-emission displays. Companies such as IBM and Intel have substantial research efforts aimed at the more complex task of building transistors and computer processors from nanotubes. Research under this proposal addresses one of the important requirements for achieving that vision: understanding and modifying electron flow in one-dimensional systems (carbon nanotubes) by local gating, to create transistors. By agreement with the program officer, this effort was broadened to explore electron flow in other 1D conductors (semiconductor nanowires) and electronic states in other carbon nanomaterials (graphene).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA556302

Entities

People

  • D. Goldhaber-gordon

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Advanced Materials
  • Carbon Nanotubes
  • Composite Materials
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Engineering
  • Field Emission
  • Fullerenes
  • Graphene
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Nanomaterials
  • Nanotechnology
  • Quantum Properties
  • Semiconductors
  • Spin-Orbit Interaction
  • Transistors

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Electronics Engineering
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics