October 3, 2015

Carbon nanotube circuits. In yellow the contacts, in white barely visible the nanotube (Image courtesy IBM Research)

IBM announced a leap forward in the realization of carbon nanotubes circuits. It’s one of the most promising technologies in electronics but so far many problems in its practical application prevented its practical use. IBM now claims to have discovered a way to use it to create transistors to replace the current silicon-based ones.