Carbon nanotubes are nanocomponents par excellence that offer unique properties to be exploited in next-generation devices. Sensing applications are perhaps the class that has most to gain from single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs); virtually any property of SWNTs (e.g., electronic, electrical, mechanical, and optical) can result or has already resulted in sensor concept demonstrators. The bas...

We have constructed devices in which the interior of a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) field-effect transistor acts as a nanofluidic channel that connects two fluid reservoirs, permitting measurement of the electronic properties of the SWCNT as it is wetted by an analyte. Wetting of the inside of the SWCNT by water turns the transistor on, while wetting of the outside has little effect. T...

Noise can help signal detection at the nano–level. Experiments on a single–walled carbon nanotube transistor confirm that a threshold exhibits stochastic resonance: a judicious amount of noise can help a threshold–like nanotube transistor detect subthreshold signals while large amounts of noise overwhelm the signals. The nanotube produced this stochastic–resonance effect using three types of sy...

The present paper treats the Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNFETs) in terms of new development as a possible future basic element for beyond CMOS technology used in ultra high scale integration ULSI. The CNFET is studied both in physical as well as technological point of views aiming a further understanding of the limitations to high integration density. The different types of carbo...

The experimentally verified electrical properties of carbon nanotube structures and manifestations in related phenomena such as thermoelectricity, superconductivity, electroluminescence, and photoconductivity are reviewed. The possibility of using naturally formed complex nanotube morphologies, such as Y-junctions, for new device architectures are then considered. Technological applications of ...

A novel non-lithographic technique for the fabrication of carbon nanotube thin film transistors is presented. The whole transistor fabrication process requires only one mask which is used both to pattern transistor channels based on aerosol synthesized carbon nanotubes and to deposit electrodes by metal evaporation at different angles. An important effect of electrodynamic focusing was utilized...

The sensing mechanism of DNA with carbon nanotube– field effect transistor sensors is investigated by firstprinciples electronic structure calculations. We have investigated the interaction of individual DNA nucleobases (especially guanine and cytosine) with single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), and compared the binding energies of various configurations including π-stacking and direct bondin...

Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNFETs) are being widely studied as the possible alternatives to the conventional silicon-MOSFETs. In this paper we have successfully designed the CNFET-based digital logic gates and compared them with the existing CMOS technology based logic gates. The designs are modeled using 32-nm technology for both CNFET and CMOS technology, using Stanford Univers...