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Purity pays off for nanotubes

02 Aug 2005 Isabelle Dumé

Physicists in the US have developed a new method for making electronic circuits with carbon nanotubes. The technique involves dipping semiconductor chips into a purified solution of nanotubes, rather than the conventional method of growing the nanotubes directly onto the chips. The resulting devices are much better than those produced by other approaches (Nature Materials 4 589).

Nanotubes on a chip
The features in conventional microelectronic circuits are getting smaller and smaller and will soon

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