Prospects of carbyne applications in microelectronics

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential of carbyne, a one-dimensional carbon allotrope, for microelectronic applications by designing a scalable carbyne transistor compatible with existing silicon technology.

Contribution

It introduces a design for a carbyne transistor that can be integrated into current silicon processes and scaled from micrometer to monomolecular dimensions.

Findings

Carbyne transistor design compatible with silicon technology.

Scalability from 0.5-micron to monomolecular structures.

Key mechanism identified as inter-chain charge transfer.

Abstract

We design carbyne transistor which is integrable into the existing silicon technology and can be scaled up in a rather broad range -- starting from that prepared by us (by 0.5-mkm technology) up to the monomolecular one because the key mechanism here is the inter-chain charge transfer.