Nanotube Valley

Perhaps someday we'll call it carbon nanotube valley.  The labs of Stanford professors Subhasish Mitra and  H.-S. Philip Wong have built a turing machine out of carbon nanotubes, the same sort of breakthrough that the first Silicon Valley pioneers did with electrons in semiconductors.  Read the article at the Stanford News but also look at the OTL project description ("docket") for related projects.

The described project is Field-Effect Transistor (CNFET), transparent electrodes and three-dimensional integration of CNFETs.   You can read the description and applications of this new innovation, and find other innovations by keyword at the feature-rich Stanford Office of Technology Licensing "TechFinder" portal.

In VL Navigator or the TechFinder widgets, look for other green-box projects and red diamond disclosures in the collaborative ecosystem to discover related innovations.

A first: Stanford engineers build basic computer using carbon nanotubes

According to the Stanford Report (September 26, 2013), "Unprecedented feat points toward a new generation of energy-efficient electronics."  We recommend you read the full article here.