Y-shaped nanotubes might become a common component in ultrasmall electronic circuitry, according to scientists who have just shown that the microscopic, branched structures can function as transistors.
ELECTRONIC FORK. This Y-shaped carbon nanotube behaves as a transistor. Dark spot at fork is an iron-titanium particle. Bandaru et al./Nature
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