Thin Film Nanotube Transistors Based on Self-Assembled, Aligned, Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Arrays

被引：446

作者：

Engel, Michael ^{[1
]}

Small, Joshua P. ^{[1
]}

Steiner, Mathias ^{[1
]}

Freitag, Marcus ^{[1
]}

Green, Alexander A. ^{[2
,3
]}

Hersam, Mark C. ^{[2
,3
]}

Avouris, Phaedon ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] IBM Corp, Thomas J Watson Res Ctr, Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 USA

[2] Northwestern Univ, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

[3] Northwestern Univ, Dept Chem, Evanston, IL 60208 USA

来源：

ACS NANO | 2008年 / 2卷 / 12期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

thin film; self-assembly; carbon nanotube; alignment; field-effect transistor; opto-electronic;

D O I：

10.1021/nn800708w

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

Thin film transistors (TFTs) are now poised to revolutionize the display, sensor, and flexible electronics markets. However, there is a limited choice of channel materials compatible with low-temperature processing. This has inhibited the fabrication of high electrical performance TFTs. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have very high mobilities and can be solution-processed, making thin film CNT-based TFTs a natural direction for exploration. The two main challenges facing CNT-TFTs are the difficulty of placing and aligning CNTs over large areas and low on/off current ratios due to admixture of metallic nanotubes. Here, we report the self-assembly and self-alignment of CNTs from solution into micron-wide strips that form regular arrays of dense and highly aligned CNT films covering the entire chip, which is ideally suitable for device fabrication. The films are formed from pre-separated, 99% purely semiconducting CNTs and, as a result, the CNT-TFTs exhibit simultaneously high drive currents and large on/off current ratios. Moreover, they deliver strong photocurrents and are also both photo- and electroluminescent.

引用

页码：2445 / 2452

页数：8

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