Carbon Nanotube Low Power Integrated Circuit.

Identifying a material that can outperform silicon in terms of device density, power consumption and performance is one of the main goals of today's nano-electronics effort. Carbon nanotubes are considered to offer the greatest potential in this context. So far, the emphasis has been on fabricating and characterizing individual nanotube devices. A critical next step is the construction of integrated circuits. Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology is the dominant approach for microprocessors, memories, and many other applications, in particular due to its small power consumption. Here, we demonstrate the first CMOS-type, high performance, multiple components logic circuit based on a single carbon nanotube molecule.