IBM Corp. unveiled Thursday (Nov. 17) what is said is the world’s first electroluminescent nanotube transistor and claimed it glows 1,000 times brighter than a light-emitting diode with as much as 10,000 times more photon flux.
By emitting thousands of photons in silicon with the same energy expenditure as one photon in gallium arsenide, IBM predicted that carbon nanotube transistors will lead to integrated optics on silicon chips. According to IBM, integrated optics on silicon chips could lower costs, accelerate electronics and mitigate the need for exotic semiconductors like gallium arsenide. Other research groups have reported light emission by carbon nanotubes stimulated to photoluminescence with a laser. IBM claims its technique uses only electrical stimulation to create an exciton density that is 100-fold larger than photoluminescence in nanotubes.
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