Multiwalled carbon nanotubes as ultrasensitive electrometers
- 21 May 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 78 (21), 3295-3297
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1362281
Abstract
We show that it is possible to construct low-noise single-electron transistors (SETs) using free-standing multiwalled carbon nanotubes. The 1/fα -noise of our devices, 6×10 exp −6 e/√Hz at 45 Hz, is close in the performance to the best metallic SETs of today.Peer revieweKeywords
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