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Electrical Transport in Carbon Nanotube Y-junctions- a Paradigm for Novel Functionality at the Nanoscale

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Carbon Nanotube (CNT) morphologies with a self-contained gate, such as Y-junctions, offer a new way of exploiting the features unique to the nanoscale, such as quantum ballistic transport. The advantages of low power and high frequency operation can then be applied to the fabrication of novel devices. Several other novel functionalities in Y- CNTs, including rectification, switching, high-frequency performance, and logic gates have been experimentally verified1. Y-CNT geometry dependent current blocking behavior, as a function of annealing temperature has also been observed. In view of the above observations, this paper proposes that Y-CNTs can be used for prototypical nanoelectronic components.

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  1. Materials Science program, UC, 92093-0411, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Jeongwon Park, Chiara Daraio & Prabhakar Bandaru

  2. Clemson University, 29634-0978, Clemson, SC, USA

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Park, J., Daraio, C., Rao, A. et al. Electrical Transport in Carbon Nanotube Y-junctions- a Paradigm for Novel Functionality at the Nanoscale. MRS Online Proceedings Library 922, 1108 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-0922-U11-08

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