Carbon Nanoelectronics

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doi:10.3390/electronics3010022

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Journal: Electronics	Publication Date: Jan 27, 2014
Citations: 3	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Initiated by the first single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) transistors [1,2], and reinvigorated with the isolation of graphene [3], the field of carbon-based nanoscale electronic devices and components (Carbon Nanoelectronics for short) has developed at a blistering pace [4]. Comprising a vast number of scientists and engineers that span materials science, physics, chemistry, and electronics, this field seeks to provide an evolutionary transition path to address the fundamental scaling limitations of silicon CMOS [5]. Concurrently, researchers are actively investigating the use of carbon nanomaterials in applications including back-end interconnects, high-speed optoelectronic applications [6], spin-transport [7], spin tunnel barrier [8], flexible electronics, and many more. [...]

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Initiated by the first single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) transistors [1,2], and reinvigorated with the isolation of graphene [3], the field of carbon-based nanoscale electronic devices and components (Carbon Nanoelectronics for short) has developed at a blistering pace [4]
Researchers are actively investigating the use of carbon nanomaterials in applications including back-end interconnects, high-speed optoelectronic applications [6], spin-transport [7], spin tunnel barrier [8], flexible electronics, and many more
Expanding this simple single atomic bonding model into an infinite lattice of carbon atoms, each providing one π orbital (i.e., 2 π-orbitals per unit cell), leads to the tight-binding bandstructure first reported by Wallace in 1947 [9]

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Initiated by the first single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) transistors [1,2], and reinvigorated with the isolation of graphene [3], the field of carbon-based nanoscale electronic devices and components (Carbon Nanoelectronics for short) has developed at a blistering pace [4]. Researchers are actively investigating the use of carbon nanomaterials in applications including back-end interconnects, high-speed optoelectronic applications [6], spin-transport [7], spin tunnel barrier [8], flexible electronics, and many more. Interest in Carbon Nanoelectronics is fueled by the many unique and extraordinary physical properties of carbon nanomaterials comprising sp2 bonded carbon atoms with a hexagonal structure.

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