Finally, Commercialization of Wafers of Carbon Nanotube Transistor Chips | NextBigFuture.com

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors or CNFETs can now be made 1100 times faster so significant commercialization will finally happen. CNFETs are more energy-efficient than silicon field-effect transistors and could be used to build new types of three-dimensional microprocessors. They found that dry cycling, a method of intermittently drying out the submerged wafer, could dramatically reduce the incubation time — from 48 hours to 150 seconds. After analyzing the deposition technique used to make the CNFETs, Max Shulaker, an MIT assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his colleagues made some changes to speed up the fabrication process by