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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. A CNTFET-Based Nanowired Induction Two-Way Transducers

    05 Sep 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Rostyslav Sklyar

    A complex of the induction magnetic field two-way nanotransducers of the different physical values for both the external and implantable interfaces in a wide range of arrays are summarized. Implementation of the nanowires allows reliable transducing of the biosignals' partials and bringing of...

  2. A Comparative Study of nanoHUB Tools for the Simulation of Carbon-based FETs

    03 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jose M. de la Rosa

    This work compares the different tools available in nanoHUB for the electrical simulation of carbon- based field-effect transistors made up of either carbon nanotubes (CNTs) or graphene. ...

  3. A Gentle Introduction to Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

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    13 Feb 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Ratner

    While the Greek root nano just means dwarf, the nanoscale has become a giant focus of contemporary science and technology. We will examine the fundamental issues underlying the excitement involved in nanoscale research - what, why and how. Specific topics include assembly, properties,...

  4. A New Terahertz Heterodyne Detector Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

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    27 Jul 2005 | | Contributor(s):: Sigfrid Yngvesson

    We present non-invasive methods for improving the sensitivity of label-free biosensors that offer the advantage of rapid and real-time detection but suffer from relatively low sensitivity. We present detection of cancer markers using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance and demonstrate that 2...

  5. Aaron Franklin

    Aaron Franklin received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2008 and his B.S.E. degree from Arizona State University in 2004, both in electrical engineering. Since 2009, he has been a Research...

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  6. ABDUL WAHEED ANWAR

    Third year phd student

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  7. Abhijith Ananthan

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  8. Abhisek kole

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  9. Abhisek Kole

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  10. Abu Raihan

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  11. Adedapo Sunday Adeyinka

    Adedapo Adeyinka is a Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Johannesburg. He completed his PhD at the University of Pretoria and spent two years conducting Postdoctoral...

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  12. Adrian Suteu

    Source Graphene is the first based Romanian company focused on producing and supplying graphene oxide in water dispersion. Source Graphene has the capacity to obtain high, cost effective amounts of...

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  13. Akshay Kumar Mahadev Arabhavi

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  14. Alternative Hitachi SEM Techniques

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    13 May 2022 |

    Robert Passeri, Hitachi engineer, discusses STEM and low kV imaging techniques with the Hitachi SEM S4800.

  15. Amy Marconnet

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  16. An Electrical Engineering Perspective on Molecular Electronics

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    26 Oct 2005 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

    After forty years of advances in integrated circuit technology, microelectronics is undergoing a transformation to nanoelectronics. Modern day MOSFETs now have channel lengths that are less than 50 nm long, and billion transistor logic chips have arrived. Moore's Law continues, but the end of...

  17. Analysis of DC Electrical Conductivity Models of Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites with Potential Application to Nanometric Electronic Devices

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    09 Mar 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Rafael Vargas-Bernal, Gabriel Herrera-Pérez, Ma. Elena Calixto-Olalde, Margarita Tecpoyotl-Torres

    The design of nanometric electronic devices requires novel materials for improving their electrical performance from stages of design until their fabrication. Until now, several DC electrical conductivity models for composite materials have been proposed. However, these models must be valued to...

  18. ANDRES RAYMUNDO MU�OZ BUCIO

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  19. Arpit Baral

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  20. Ashkan Behnam

    Research assistant at University of Florida

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