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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

"MATERIALS: Carbon transistors touted as outperforming amorphous silicon"

Processing semiconductors at room temperature could enable large-scale applications like electronic billboards and ultra-low-cost applications like disposable RFID tags. But most room-temperature transistors have dismal electron mobility measured in the hundredths of centimeters2 per volt second (cm2/Vs). Now, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are claiming to have perfected a method of making room- temperature transistors that are 100-times faster--as fast a amorphous silicon--by fabricating their channels from thin films of carbon-60 (C60), also knows as buckyballs or fullerenes.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204300284