Carbon nanotube-based electronic devices
AssigneeThe MITRE Corporation
InventorsJanet Werth, Sarah O'Donnell, David Lamensdorf, Jim Marshall, Lucien Teig
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Abstract
Carbon nanotube-based devices that can be used to meet the growing miniaturization and performance needs of electronic systems, are provided. In particular, a transmission line and inductor that include nanotube bundles is disclosed. In a further embodiment a method for isolating nanotubes with proteins is disclosed. In another embodiment a nanoswitch using nanotubes is disclosed. In a final embodiment a low loss, high permeability material is disclosed that includes a conductive coil and a set of nanotube toroids.
Claims9
A transmission line, comprising:
- (a) a bundle of approximately 10,000 single-walled carbon nanotubes;
- (b) a conductive sheet, wherein the bundle of approximately 10,000 single-walled carbon nanotubes is supported in a plane above the conductive sheet.
An inductor, comprising
- (a) a bundle of approximately 10,000 single-walled carbon nanotubes;
- (b) a conductive sheet, wherein the bundle of single-walled carbon nanotubes is supported in a plane above the conductive sheet, wherein the bundled of single-walled carbon nanotubes and the conductive sheet are coiled.
A method for synthetic biologic manipulation to wrap, isolate and combine nanotubes, so as to generate a bundle of approximately 10,000 single-walled carbon nanotubes, comprising:
- selectively wrapping nanotubes having a specified diameter and symmetry with a first ssDNA molecule;
- selectively wrapping the nanotubes with a second ssDNA molecule to create a biased helix pitch around the nanotubes;
- linking nanotubes that are wrapped in similar ssDNA by matching their biased counterparts, thereby aligning and isolating the nanotubes so as to generate a bundle of approximately 10,000 single-walled carbon nanotubes.
A low loss, high permeability material, comprising:
- a conducting coil;
- a plurality of nanotube tori;
- and
- an inert material located within the conducting coil, having the plurality of nanotube tori embedded therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.