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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,279 Views
10 Pages

The Effects of Hydrogen Annealing on Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

  • Takashi Uchino,
  • Greg N. Ayre,
  • David C. Smith,
  • John L. Hutchison,
  • C. H. de Groot and
  • Peter Ashburn

23 September 2021

We have systematically investigated the effects of hydrogen annealing on Ni- and Al-contacted carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs), whose work functions have not been affected by hydrogen annealing. Measured results show that the electr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,733 Views
32 Pages

20 September 2022

Nano biochemical sensors play an important role in detecting the biomarkers related to human diseases, and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have become an important factor in promoting the vigorous development of this field due to their special structure and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,332 Views
9 Pages

Analytical Capacitance Model for Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors Including Interface-Trap Effects

  • Bin Zhou,
  • Rui Zhan,
  • Zilin Teng,
  • Yiheng Xue,
  • Xiaoyan Hu,
  • Jianhua Jiang and
  • Panpan Zhang

14 April 2025

The creation of carbon nanotubes has sparked a paradigm shift in the post-silicon era because of their decent electronic and optical properties. However, interface traps pose an obstacle in the realization of high-performance carbon nanotube field-ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,479 Views
22 Pages

Scaling, Leakage Current Suppression, and Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

  • Weixu Gong,
  • Zhengyang Cai,
  • Shengcheng Geng,
  • Zhi Gan,
  • Junqiao Li,
  • Tian Qiang,
  • Yanfeng Jiang and
  • Mengye Cai

28 July 2025

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) are becoming a strong competitor for the next generation of high-performance, energy-efficient integrated circuits due to their near-ballistic carrier transport characteristics and excellent suppress...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,478 Views
15 Pages

A Compact and Robust Technique for the Modeling and Parameter Extraction of Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors

  • Laura Falaschetti,
  • Davide Mencarelli,
  • Nicola Pelagalli,
  • Paolo Crippa,
  • Giorgio Biagetti,
  • Claudio Turchetti,
  • George Deligeorgis and
  • Luca Pierantoni

20 December 2020

Carbon nanotubes field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) have been recently studied with great interest due to the intriguing properties of the material that, in turn, lead to remarkable properties of the charge transport of the device channel. Downstream...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,814 Views
13 Pages

30 June 2020

We developed ion-selective field-effect transistor (FET) sensors with floating electrodes for the monitoring of the potassium ion release by the stimulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) on PC12 cells. Here, ion-selective valinomycin-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,136 Views
16 Pages

This paper investigates the performance of vacuum gate dielectric doping-free carbon nanotube/nanoribbon field-effect transistors (VGD-DL CNT/GNRFETs) via computational analysis employing a quantum simulation approach. The methodology integrates the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,800 Views
17 Pages

28 January 2022

The low on-current and direct source-to-drain tunneling (DSDT) issues are the main drawbacks in the ultrascaled tunneling field-effect transistors based on carbon nanotube and ribbons. In this article, the performance of nanoscale junctionless carbon...

  • Review
  • Open Access
86 Citations
13,762 Views
18 Pages

Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor-Based Chemical and Biological Sensors

  • Xuesong Yao,
  • Yalei Zhang,
  • Wanlin Jin,
  • Youfan Hu and
  • Yue Cui

2 February 2021

Chemical and biological sensors have attracted great interest due to their importance in applications of healthcare, food quality monitoring, environmental monitoring, etc. Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based field-effect transistors (FETs) are novel sensing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,865 Views
36 Pages

30 September 2013

Excellent electrical performance and extreme sensitivity to chemical species in semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon NanoTubes (s-SWCNTs) motivated the study of using them to replace silicon as a next generation field effect transistor (FET) for elect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,085 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Trapped Charge Induced by Total Ionizing Dose Radiation on the Top-Gate Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors

  • Hongyu Ding,
  • Jiangwei Cui,
  • Qiwen Zheng,
  • Haitao Xu,
  • Ningfei Gao,
  • Mingzhu Xun,
  • Gang Yu,
  • Chengfa He,
  • Yudong Li and
  • Qi Guo

17 February 2023

The excellent performance and radiation-hardness potential of carbon nanotube (CNT) field effect transistors (CNTFETs) have attracted wide attention. However, top-gate structure CNTFETs, which are often used to make high-performance devices, have not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,756 Views
12 Pages

3 December 2018

The possibility of exposure to botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), a powerful and potential bioterrorism agent, is considered to be ever increasing. The current gold-standard assay, live-mouse lethality, exhibits high sensitivity but has limitations includi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
470 Views
11 Pages

26 November 2025

In recent years, the amount of mercury discharged by human activities has continued to increase. Most of the mercury in surface water settles into the sediment, where it can be directly or indirectly transformed into mercury ion (Hg2+) compounds (suc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
455 Views
14 Pages

30 November 2025

The epidemic of infectious diseases, such as influenza A, has imposed a severe health burden on the population. Early detection, diagnosis, reporting, isolation, and treatment are crucial for the prevention, control, and management of infectious dise...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,214 Views
12 Pages

25 December 2020

In this paper, we report the wafer-scale fabrication of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) with the dielectrophoresis (DEP) method. Semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were positioned as the active channel material in the fabricati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,146 Views
22 Pages

Toward the Commercialization of Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor Biosensors

  • Zhongyu Li,
  • Mengmeng Xiao,
  • Chuanhong Jin and
  • Zhiyong Zhang

27 February 2023

The development of biosensors based on field-effect transistors (FETs) using atomically thick carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as a channel material has the potential to revolutionize the related field due to their small size, high sensitivity, label-free det...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,770 Views
13 Pages

Carbon nanotubes have excellent electrical properties and can be used as a new generation of semiconductor materials. This paper presents a compact model for carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs). The model uses a semi-empirical approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,119 Views
13 Pages

12 July 2019

We present a monolithic biosensor platform, based on carbon-nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs), for the detection of the neurotransmitter glutamate. We used an array of 9′216 CNTFET devices with 96 integrated readout and amplification...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,709 Views
22 Pages

24 March 2023

We compare the pH sensing performance of non-functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNT) field-effect transistors (p-CNTFET) and CNTFET functionalized with a conjugated polyfluorene polymer (labeled FF-UR) bearing urea-based moieties (f-CNTFET). The device...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,123 Views
9 Pages

Precise Deposition of Carbon Nanotube Bundles by Inkjet-Printing on a CMOS-Compatible Platform

  • Rohitkumar Shailendra Singh,
  • Katsuyuki Takagi,
  • Toru Aoki,
  • Jong Hyun Moon,
  • Yoichiro Neo,
  • Futoshi Iwata,
  • Hidenori Mimura and
  • Daniel Moraru

15 July 2022

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are ultimately small structures, attractive for future nanoelectronics. CNT-bundles on Si nanostructures can offer an alternative pathway to build hybrid CMOS-compatible devices. To develop a simple method of using such CNT-bu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
17,823 Views
11 Pages

8 July 2009

Label-free detections of biomolecules have attracted great attention in a lot of life science fields such as genomics, clinical diagnosis and practical pharmacy. In this article, we reviewed amperometric and potentiometric biosensors based on carbon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,818 Views
16 Pages

Full-Custom 90 nm CNTFET Process Design Kit: Characterization, Modeling, and Implementation

  • Liming Chen,
  • Yuyan Zhang,
  • Zhifeng Chen,
  • Jiming Chen,
  • Huangwei Chen,
  • Jianhua Jiang and
  • Chengying Chen

As the semiconductor industry enters the post-Moore era, the carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNTFET) has become a powerful substitute for silicon-based transistors beyond 5 nm process nodes due to its high mobility, low power consumption, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,384 Views
16 Pages

Next-Generation Hybrid RF Front-End with MoS2-FET Supply Management Circuit, CNT-FET Amplifiers, and Graphene Thin-Film Antennas

  • Paolo Crippa,
  • Giorgio Biagetti,
  • Lorenzo Minelli,
  • Claudio Turchetti,
  • Martino Aldrigo,
  • Mircea Dragoman,
  • Davide Mencarelli and
  • Luca Pierantoni

12 November 2022

One-dimensional (1D) and two-dimensional (2D) materials represent the emerging technologies for transistor electronics in view of their attractive electrical (high power gain, high cut-off frequency, low power dissipation) and mechanical properties....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,992 Views
11 Pages

An Analytical Conductance Model for Gas Detection Based on a Zigzag Carbon Nanotube Sensor

  • Ali Hosseingholipourasl,
  • Sharifah Hafizah Syed Ariffin,
  • Mohammad Taghi Ahmadi,
  • Seyed Saeid Rahimian Koloor,
  • Michal Petrů and
  • Afiq Hamzah

8 January 2020

Recent advances in nanotechnology have revealed the superiority of nanocarbon species such as carbon nanotubes over other conventional materials for gas sensing applications. In this work, analytical modeling of the semiconducting zigzag carbon nanot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
11,930 Views
20 Pages

Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNTFET) and Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) Based Ternary Combinational Logic Circuits

  • Furqan Zahoor,
  • Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin,
  • Farooq Ahmad Khanday,
  • Mohamad Radzi Ahmad,
  • Illani Mohd Nawi,
  • Chia Yee Ooi and
  • Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani

The capability of multiple valued logic (MVL) circuits to achieve higher storage density when compared to that of existing binary circuits is highly impressive. Recently, MVL circuits have attracted significant attention for the design of digital sys...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,955 Views
4 Pages

Label-Free Immunodetection in High Ionic Strength Solutions Using Carbon Nanotube Transistors with Nanobody Receptors

  • Marcin S. Filipiak,
  • Marcel Rother,
  • Nesha M. Andoy,
  • Arne C. Knudsen,
  • Stefan B. Grimm,
  • Christopher Bachran,
  • Lee Kim Swee,
  • Jana Zaumseil and
  • Alexey Tarasov

Nanomaterial-based field-effect transistors (FETs) have been proposed for real-time, label-free detection of various biological species. However, screening of the analyte charge by electrolyte ions (Debye screening) has so far limited their use in p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,050 Views
24 Pages

Ternary Arithmetic Logic Unit Design Utilizing Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNTFET) and Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM)

  • Furqan Zahoor,
  • Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin,
  • Farooq Ahmad Khanday,
  • Mohamad Radzi Ahmad and
  • Illani Mohd Nawi

21 October 2021

Due to the difficulties associated with scaling of silicon transistors, various technologies beyond binary logic processing are actively being investigated. Ternary logic circuit implementation with carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFETs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,942 Views
15 Pages

SWCNT Network-FET Device for Human Serum Albumin Detection

  • Iskandar Yahya,
  • Muhamad Azuddin Hassan,
  • Nur Nasyifa Mohd Maidin and
  • Mohd Ambri Mohamed

26 October 2022

A thin film of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) network field-effect transistor (FET) was fabricated by a simple, fast, and reliable deposition method for electronic applications. This study aims to develop a method for fabricating a thin film o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,345 Views
13 Pages

12 December 2023

The preparation of semiconducting carbon nanotube (s-CNT) thin films by solution processing has become the mainstream approach nowadays. However, residual polymers are always inevitable during the sorting of s-CNTs in solution. These residual polymer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,028 Views
16 Pages

A Novel CNFET SRAM-Based Compute-In-Memory for BNN Considering Chirality and Nanotubes

  • Youngbae Kim,
  • Nader Alnatsheh,
  • Nandakishor Yadav,
  • Jaeik Cho,
  • Heeyoung Jo and
  • Kyuwon Ken Choi

As AI models grow in complexity to enhance accuracy, supporting hardware encounters challenges such as heightened power consumption and diminished processing speed due to high throughput demands. Compute-in-memory (CIM) technology emerges as a promis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,720 Views
12 Pages

A Low-Power, High-Resolution Analog Front-End Circuit for Carbon-Based SWIR Photodetector

  • Yuyan Zhang,
  • Zhifeng Chen,
  • Wenli Liao,
  • Weirong Xi,
  • Chengying Chen and
  • Jianhua Jiang

18 September 2024

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT-FETs) have shown great promise in infrared image detection due to their high mobility, low cost, and compatibility with silicon-based technologies. This paper presents the design and simulation of a colum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,895 Views
13 Pages

Compared to single-gate CNTFET, dual-gate structures have better electrostatic control over nanowire conductive channels. However, currently, there is insufficient research on the back-gate effect in a compact model of dual-gate CNTFET. This paper pr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,587 Views
20 Pages

Progress on a Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor Integrated Circuit: State of the Art, Challenges, and Evolution

  • Zhifeng Chen,
  • Jiming Chen,
  • Wenli Liao,
  • Yuan Zhao,
  • Jianhua Jiang and
  • Chengying Chen

25 June 2024

As the traditional silicon-based CMOS technology advances into the nanoscale stage, approaching its physical limits, the Carbon Nanotube Field-effect Transistor (CNTFET) is considered to be the most significant transistor technology beyond Moore&rsqu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
9,439 Views
59 Pages

29 December 2021

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) combine high electrical conductivity with high surface area and chemical stability, which makes them very promising for chemical sensing. While water quality monitoring has particularly strong societal and environmental impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
13,017 Views
14 Pages

Analytical Calculation of Sensing Parameters on Carbon Nanotube Based Gas Sensors

  • Elnaz Akbari,
  • Zolkafle Buntat,
  • Mohd Hafizi Ahmad,
  • Aria Enzevaee,
  • Rubiyah Yousof,
  • Syed Muhammad Zafar Iqbal,
  • Mohammad Taghi. Ahmadi,
  • Muhammad Abu Bakar Sidik and
  • Hediyeh Karimi

20 March 2014

Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) are generally nano-scale tubes comprising a network of carbon atoms in a cylindrical setting that compared with silicon counterparts present outstanding characteristics such as high mechanical strength, high sensing capability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,521 Views
22 Pages

Ultra-Low Power and High-Throughput SRAM Design to Enhance AI Computing Ability in Autonomous Vehicles

  • Youngbae Kim,
  • Shreyash Patel,
  • Heekyung Kim,
  • Nandakishor Yadav and
  • Kyuwon Ken Choi

Power consumption and data processing speed of integrated circuits (ICs) is an increasing concern in many emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, such as autonomous vehicles and Internet of Things (IoT). Existing state-of-the-art SRAM arc...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,571 Views
1 Page

Detection of C-Reactive Protein by Liquid-Gated Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (LG-CNTFET): A Promising Tool against Antibiotic Resistance

  • Luis Antonio Panes-Ruiz,
  • Tom Stückemann,
  • Leif Riemenschneider,
  • Markus Löffler,
  • Viktor Bezugly and
  • Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Respiratory tract infections have the highest rates of antibiotic prescriptions where symptoms like fever, cough, and rigors are regularly misinterpreted and where bacterial infections cannot be distinguished from viral ones. Nevertheless, it has bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,494 Views
13 Pages

17 April 2017

This study demonstrates the rapid and label-free detection of Interleukin-6 (IL-6) using carbon nanotube micro-arrays with aptamer as the molecular recognition element. Single wall carbon nanotubes micro-arrays biosensors were manufactured using phot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
836 Views
18 Pages

An Efficient Electrostatic Discharge Analytical Model for a Local Bottom-Gate Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor

  • Weiyi Zheng,
  • Yuyan Zhang,
  • Zhifeng Chen,
  • Qiaoying Gan,
  • Xuefang Xiao,
  • Ying Gao,
  • Jianhua Jiang and
  • Chengying Chen

In the post-Moore era, carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) are a promising alternative to complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology at and below the 5 nm node. Compact models bridge circuit design and device physics, ye...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,445 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2018

Silver, a very common heavy metal, has been employed in electronics, medicine, jewelry, and catalysis due to its excellent chemical and physical characteristics. Silver-containing wastes can cause environmental pollution, so it is vital to monitor th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,181 Views
22 Pages

17 March 2020

The olfactory receptor neurons of insects and vertebrates are gated by odorant receptor (OR) proteins of which several members have been shown to exhibit remarkable sensitivity and selectivity towards volatile organic compounds of significant importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,158 Views
13 Pages

11 January 2024

In this study, we developed a multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)-based field-effect transistor (MWCNT-FET) sensor with high sensitivity and selectivity for microcystin-LR (MC-LR). Carboxylated MWCNTs were activated with an MC-LR-targeting aptamer (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
886 Views
17 Pages

27 November 2025

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains challenging due to the extremely low concentration of relevant biomarkers and the limited sensitivity of conventional detection techniques. In this study, we present a carbon nanotube field-ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,248 Views
11 Pages

2 September 2021

Carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNT FET) aptasensors have been investigated for the detection of adenosine using two different aptamer sequences, a 35-mer and a 27-mer. We found limits of detection for adenosine of 100 pM and 320 nM for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,742 Views
11 Pages

18 May 2017

A flexible enzymatic acetylcholinesterase biosensor based on an electrolyte-gated carbon nanotube field effect transistor is demonstrated. The enzyme immobilization is done on a planar gold gate electrode using 3-mercapto propionic acid as the linker...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,195 Views
26 Pages

22 June 2023

An essential aspect of successful cancer diagnosis is the identification of malignant tumors during the early stages of development, as this can significantly diminish patient mortality rates and increase their chances of survival. This task is facil...

  • Review
  • Open Access
151 Citations
11,951 Views
17 Pages

Advances on Sensors Based on Carbon Nanotubes

  • Luca Camilli and
  • Maurizio Passacantando

Carbon nanotubes have been attracting considerable interest among material scientists, physicists, chemists, and engineers for almost 30 years. Owing to their high aspect ratio, coupled with remarkable mechanical, electronic, and thermal properties,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,814 Views
9 Pages

Radiation Effects in Carbon Nanoelectronics

  • Cory D. Cress,
  • Julian J. McMorrow,
  • Jeremy T. Robinson,
  • Brian J. Landi,
  • Seth M. Hubbard and
  • Scott R. Messenger

We experimentally investigate the effects of Co-60 irradiation on the electrical properties of single-walled carbon nanotube and graphene field-effect transistors. We observe significant differences in the radiation response of devices depending on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,102 Views
11 Pages

28 July 2024

The carbon nanotube cold cathode has important applications in the X-ray source, microwave tube, neutralizer, etc. In this study, the characteristics of carbon nanotube (CNT) electron gun in series with metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transist...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,126 Views
23 Pages

Advancements in carbon nanotube-based FET (CNT-FET) biosensors from 2016 to 2025 have boosted their sensitivity, specificity, and rapid detection performance for biomedical purposes. This review highlights key innovations in transducer materials, fun...

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