The invention of carbon and its allotropes have transformed the electronic and
optoelectronic industry due to their encouraging properties in a large spectrum of …

The experimentally verified electrical properties of carbon nanotube structures and
manifestations in related phenomena such as thermoelectricity, superconductivity …

The controlled synthesis of materials by methods that permit their assembly into functional
nanoscale structures lies at the crux of the emerging field of nanotechnology. Although only …

Field emission (FE) is based on the physical phenomenon of quantum tunneling, in which
electrons are injected from the surface of materials into vacuum under the influence of an …

Fundamental properties of dipole transmitting antennas formed by carbon nanotubes are
investigated. Since carbon nanotubes can be grown to centimeter lengths, and since they …

Vacuum tubes that sparked the electronics era had given way to semiconductor transistors.
Despite their faster operation and better immunity to noise and radiation compared to the …

In this review we give an overview of the present status of research on carbon nanotube
(CNT) field emitters and their applications. Several different construction principles of field …

We present and experimentally verify a concept for electronic devices based on nanoscale
vacuum phototubes. Such devices are expected to be both reliable and amenable to large …

Carbon nanotubes and nanofibers are graphitic filaments/whiskers with diameters ranging
from 0.4 to 500 nm and lengths in the range of several micrometers to millimeters. Carbon …

In reduced dimensions, materials display characteristics quite different from their bulk
behavior. Interestingly, most viruses, bacteria, pathogens, particles in gas phase and other …