Use of carbon nanotubes in conductors
24 March 2008At present copper nanowires are being assumed as the best transistors, however researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that carbon nanotube interconnects are the choice for next generation transistors.
Researchers in a typical study took the help of quantum mechanics. Researchers carried out advance quantum-mechanical computer modelling on a supercomputer to run vast simulations and compared the outcomes of carbon nanotubes and copper nanowires.
After carrying out the study for months at Rensellaer Computational Centre for Nanotechnology Innovations, researchers found that the carbon nanotubes show much smaller resistance in comparison to copper nanowires. This study show that carbon nantubes will be better suited for interconnects applications.
Saroj Nayak, an associate professor at Rensselaer’s Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy and his team beleives that carbon nanotubes at 45 nanometer will outperform copper nanowires.
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