Carbon-Based Nanoelectromechanical Devices

Abstract

Carbon-based nanoelectromechanical devices are approaching applications in electronics. Switches based on individual carbon nanotubes deliver record low off-state leakage currents. Arrays of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes or nanofibers can be fabricated to constitute varactors. Very porous, low density arrays of quasivertically aligned arrays of carbon nanotubes behave mechanically as a single unit with very unusual material properties.