Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA.
Top Curr Chem (Cham). 2017 Aug 14;375(5):75. doi: 10.1007/s41061-017-0160-5.
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are extremely promising materials for building next-generation electronics due to their unique physical and electronic properties. In this article, we will review the research efforts and achievements of SWNTs in three electronic fields, namely analog radio-frequency electronics, digital electronics, and macroelectronics. In each SWNT-based electronic field, we will present the major challenges, the evolutions of the methods to overcome these challenges, and the state-of-the-art of the achievements. At last, we will discuss future directions which could lead to the broad applications of SWNTs. We hope this review could inspire more research on SWNT-based electronics, and accelerate the applications of SWNTs.
单壁碳纳米管 (SWNTs) 由于其独特的物理和电子特性，是构建下一代电子器件极具前景的材料。在本文中，我们将综述 SWNTs 在三个电子领域的研究进展，分别是模拟射频电子学、数字电子学和大电子学。在每个基于 SWNT 的电子领域，我们将介绍主要的挑战、克服这些挑战的方法的演变，以及取得的最新进展。最后，我们将讨论未来可能导致 SWNTs 广泛应用的方向。我们希望这篇综述能激发更多关于基于 SWNT 的电子学的研究，并加速 SWNTs 的应用。
