Carbon nanotube (CNT) has witnessed great importance due to its electronic and mechanical properties. The CNTFET was designed to provide highperformance electronic devices. Therefore, the carbon nanotube is representing a potential material for future microelectronic devices. In this paper, COMSOL Multiphysics was used to design and a simulate singlewalled carbon nanotube field-effect transistor with a back gate. As the CNT was not included in the material library of COMSOL, its electrical parameters were input manually, including relative permittivity, band gap, electron affinity, effective density of states in the valence and conduction band, electron, and hole mobility. The insulation layer used in the model was silicon dioxide. The influence of changing its thickness on the drain current was discussed. In addition, the specification of carbon nanotubes was investigated in terms of changing their diameter and length. Moreover, this paper reveals the current transport of CNTFET for different applied gate voltage and drain voltage. In our work, the CNTFET behaves as n-type FET with transconductance gm≈1.25uA and electron mobility equal to 4.77×10-26cm2v-1s-1. To obtain semiconducting properties for the CNT material, it must consider the chirality when altering the carbon nanotubes diameter. In the proposed device, the diameter values range from 1nm to 4.5nm. It was found that increasing the diameter range resulted in decreasing bandgap from 0.497 eV to 0.110 eV and increasing drain current from 4.075 uA to 31.33 uA
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