{"id":20594,"date":"2016-01-09T22:43:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T06:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/researchers-gauge-quantum-properties-of-nanotubes-essential-for-next-gen-electronics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:29","slug":"researchers-gauge-quantum-properties-of-nanotubes-essential-for-next-gen-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/researchers-gauge-quantum-properties-of-nanotubes-essential-for-next-gen-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Researchers gauge quantum properties of nanotubes, essential for next-gen electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-gauge-quantum-properties-of-nanotubes-essential-for-next-gen-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loving the progress around Quantum.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Today, a group of scientists \u2014 John A. Rogers, Eric Seabron, Scott MacLaren and Xu Xie from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Slava V. Rotkin from Lehigh University; and, William L. Wilson from Harvard University \u2014 are reporting on the discovery of an important method for measuring the properties of nanotube materials using a microwave probe. Their findings have been published in <em>ACS Nano<\/em> in an article called: \u201cScanning Probe Microwave Reflectivity of Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Imaging of Electronic Structure and Quantum Behavior at the Nanoscale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers studied single-walled carbon nanotubes. These are 1-dimensional, wire-like nanomaterials that have electronic properties that make them excellent candidates for next generation electronics technologies. In fact, the first prototype of a nanotube computer has already been built by researchers at Stanford University. The IBM T.J. Watson Research Center is currently developing nanotube transistors for commercial use.<\/p>\n<p>For this study, scientists grew a series of parallel nanotube lines, similar to the way nanotubes will be used in computer chips. Each nanotube was about 1 nanometer wide \u2014 ten times smaller than expected for use in the next generation of electronics. To explore the material\u2019s properties, they then used microwave impedance microscopy (MIM) to image individual nanotubes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/01\/160107104814.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving the progress around Quantum. Today, a group of scientists \u2014 John A. Rogers, Eric Seabron, Scott MacLaren and Xu Xie from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Slava V. Rotkin from Lehigh University; and, William L. Wilson from Harvard University \u2014 are reporting on the discovery of an important method for measuring the properties [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694,1635,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics","category-materials","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68886,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20594\/revisions\/68886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}