Tags: carbon nanotubes

Description

100 amps of electricity crackle in a vacuum chamber, creating a spark that transforms carbon vapor into tiny structures. Depending on the conditions, these structures can be shaped like little, 60-atom soccer balls, or like rolled-up tubes of atoms, arranged in a chicken-wire pattern, with rounded ends. These tiny, carbon nanotubes, discovered by Sumio Iijima at NEC labs in 1991, have amazing properties. They are 100 times stronger than steel, but weigh only one-sixth as much. They are incredibly resilient under physical stress; even when kinked to a 120-degree angle, they will bounce back to their original form, undamaged. And they can carry electrical current at levels that would vaporize ordinary copper wires.

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  1. CCAM Compact Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor Model

    27 Apr 2022 | Compact Models | Contributor(s):

    By Michael Schroter1, Manojkumar Annamalai2, Max Haferlach3, Martin Claus3

    1. UCSD 2. Technische Universitaet Dresden 3. Technische Universität Dresden

    CCAM is a semi-physical carbon nanotube field-effect transistor model applicable for digital, analog and high frequency applications.

    https://nanohub.org/publications/62/?v=3

  2. CNRS - Carbon Nanotube Interconnect RC Model

    06 Oct 2017 | Compact Models | Contributor(s):

    By Jie LIANG1, Aida Todri2

    1. CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) 2. CNRS

    This CNT Interconnect Compact Model includes a solid physics understanding and electrical modeling for pristine and doped SWCNT as Interconnect applications. SWCNT resistance and capacitance are...

    https://nanohub.org/publications/200/?v=1