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FETs Fabbed with Fullerene

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ATLANTA, Dec. 3, 2007 -- High-performance field-effect transistors (FETs) have been fabricated at room temperature using thin films of carbon 60 (C60), an organic semiconductor material also known as fullerene. The new transistors won't replace silicon-based CMOS chips but could make large-area applications such as displays and electronic billboards more economical. “If you open a textbook and look at what a thin-film transistor should do, we are pretty close now,” said Bernard Kippelen, a professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Organic...Read full article

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    Published: December 2007
    Glossary
    epitaxy
    A well controlled thin films technique for growing films with good crystal structure in ultra high vacuum environments at very low deposition rates. Epitaxy methods are well known for the growing of single crystals in which chemical reactions produce thin layers of materials whose lattice structures are identical to that of the substrate on which they are deposited. Some examples are molecular beam epitaxy, liquid phase epitaxy and vapor phase epitaxy. Molecular beam epitaxy is also commonly...
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