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First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A Circuit

Posted by timothy on from the waiting-for-productization dept.

btsdev writes "Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University have developed the first ever integrated silicon circuit with nanotube technology. According to the article on UC Berkeley's site, this brings researchers one step closer to developing memory chips with carbon nanotubes - chips that could hold approximately 10,000 times more data than those we have today."

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  1. Re:Heat and carbon nanotubes... by Smidge204 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did you even read the article you linked to? In order for that to happen, you need to fill a laundary list of rather specific criteria:

    1) Single walled nanotubes
    2) Presence of oxygen
    3) Temperatures in excess of 1,500 C
    4) Only intense light seems to effect it (photons are absorbed by the nanotubes directly)

    We can let #1 slide since I do not know if there is any specific requirement if nanotubes can (or must be) single or multi walled for use in electronics. Since there hasn't been any real development of nanotube electronics yet, I don't think anyone really knows. The linked article is about tool to analize nanotubes, not no much build electronic devices that incorperate them. It does make a good proof-of-concept though.

    #2 is easily remedied because the devices would be hermetically sealed in opaque packages. That also takes care of #4...

    And I don't think anyone will have to worry about the 1500 degree temperatures so far as electronics are concerned. At least nobody in the private sector...

    I mean damn, it's one thing to not RTFA, but you didn't even read your own sources!
    =Smidge=