"People have been talking about a new era of carbon nanotube electronics, but there have been few demonstrations. Here is the proof," said Prof Subhasish Mitra, lead author on the study. The Stanford team hope their achievement will galvanise efforts to find a commercial successor to silicon ...
Carbon nanotubes can be a single nanometer wide in diameter. In comparison, a strand of human DNA is 2.5 nanometers in diameter and your fingernail grows about a nanometer every second.
The achievement by Stanford engineers marks the most complex electronic device ever built from carbon nanotubes, a man-made tubelike structure created from a rolled-up sheet of carbon one atom thick. The tubes' remarkable electrical and mechanical properties have led researchers to explore their ...
Someday we may look back on today's iPhones and laptops as huge, clunky devices with outdated chips made of silicon that was long ago replaced by carbon nanotubes. Tens of thousands of the tiny tubelike structures can fit inside a human hair, and now scientists have created the first carbon ...
Carbon nanotube computer refers to a computer built entirely using carbon nanotubes based transistors.Researchers from Stanford University said that they had successfully built a carbon nanotube computer and their research paper published on 25 September 2013 in the journal Nature. They named their ...
How small is a carbon computer chip?!!! 100 microns - width of human hair 10 microns - water droplet 8 microns - transistors in Cedric 625 nanometres (nm) - wavelength of red light 20-450 nm - single viruses 22 nm latest silicon chips 9 nm - smallest carbon nanotube chip 6 nm - cell membrane 1 nm ...
"Cedric" is only a basic prototype but could be developed into a machine which is smaller, faster and more efficient than today's silicon models.
It runs a basic operating system which allows it to swap back and forth between two tasks - for instance, counting and sorting numbers. And unlike previous carbon-based computers, Cedric gets the answer right every time.
