The University of Surrey has created a flexible and stretchy supercapacitor “that can be easily integrated into footwear, clothing, and accessories”, it said. Building one involves transferring aligned carbon nanotube arrays from a silicon wafer over to a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) layer in which they are partly embedded. Polyaniline is then polymerised onto the surface of the nanotubes. In capacitors made from ...
MIT and ADI have built a 16-bit processor using carbon nanotubes (CNTs). 10 million CNTs were used to form 14,702 CMOS CNT field-effect transistors (CNTFETs), arranged in 3,762 digital logic blocks, that together operated as a 16-bit processor. Electronics Weekly now has a detailed description of this CNT processor The chip can fetch 32-bit instructions from memory, has a RISC-V register ...
Researchers at the University of Surrey have demonstrated carbon nanotubes creating wafer-thin, flat structures that enable the miniaturisation of a range of optical devices. Removing the need for traditional curved refracting lensing systems, which are generally bulky and expensive, will enable new compact optical systems based on this nanotechnology. The researchers grew vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, in a grid-like formation ...
Nantero, the Boston carbon nanotube IC specialist, has raised another $31.5 million. “We were targeting $15 million and ended with more than double,” Nantero Co-Founder and CEO Greg Schmergel told Electronics Weekly.
Researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute claim to have developed a carbon nanotube solar cell with record efficiency
Reflect on this: a gentle push is all it takes to turn the blackest material in the world into a shiny mirror. What's more, combining the two extremes in one substance could open up applications in optical sensors and bendy electronics.
Aiming to make a multi-core cable to compete with nerves, researchers at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory have processed carbon nanotubes with glass fibre drawing techniques. The result is a fibre under 0.5mm in diameter with 19,600 conductive channels.
Carefully designed-in carbon nanotubes, and their close relative C60 Bucky balls, can increase organic solar cell efficiency
Samsung has demonstrated an LCD with a field emission backlight (FEB) - achieving a claimed 300,000:1 contrast ratio.
On-chip interconnections using carbon nanotube technology have been demonstrated at above 1GHz by researchers at California's Stanford University working with semiconductor companies Toshiba and TSMC.
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