Multiwalled carbon nanotubes as ultrasensitive electrometers

L. Roschier; R. Tarkiainen; M. Ahlskog; M. Paalanen; P. Hakonen

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Multiwalled carbon nanotubes as ultrasensitive electrometers

L. Roschier, R. Tarkiainen, M. Ahlskog, M. Paalanen, P. Hakonen

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Abstract

We show that it is possible to construct low-noise single-electron transistors (SETs) using free-standing multiwalled carbon nanotubes. The 1/fα-noise of our devices, 6×10−6e/Hz⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯√ at 45 Hz, is close in the performance to the best metallic SETs of today.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3295-3297
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	78
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1362281
Publication status	Published - 2001
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

atomic force microscope
carbon nanotube
nanoelectronic

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