Created a nanotube transistor, which for the first time broke the 100 GHz barrier

Modern electronics is developing by leaps and bounds, and various scientific groups around the world now and then report on this or that breakthrough.

The relatively new company is no exception. Carbonics, which published in a popular scientific journal Nature Electronics an article describing their research, as a result of which they managed to create a transistor based on carbon nanotubes, operating at a frequency of more than 100 GHz.

Their work may have historical significance, since for quite a long time all theorists predicted that in the future carbon nanotubes, thanks to their unique one-dimensional characteristics of electron transport, will revolutionize high-frequency transistor technologies.

But the reality was that the engineers were unable to correctly arrange the semiconductor high-frequency nanotubes into the most dense arrays and thereby collect a really working device.

But the engineers from the company

Carbonics passed this milestone, and they created a really working prototype with a performance exceeding RF - CMOS for all key indicators.

The performed theoretical studies have shown that the new technology is quite capable of significantly overtaking the currently functioning high-frequency radio-frequency technology. GaAs.

Engineers Carbonics the latest deposition technology was used ZEBRA. It was she (technology) that made it possible to align carbon nanotubes as tightly as possible and apply them to the most a variety of chip substrates, including silicon, silicon on insulating substrate, quartz, and various flexible materials.

This versatility will allow the technology to be combined with existing (traditional) logic circuits. CMOS.

What is remarkable funded by the research data of the US Air Force, as well as the King Abdulaziz Center for Science and Technology (KACST) and initially the technology will be used for the US defense for communications 5G and mm Wave.

So if the technology reaches widespread adoption among the masses, then initially it will enter the service precisely military and only after that, if the military allows, the technological novelty will see the light of equipment.

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