Electronically Pure Single-Chirality Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube for Large-Scale Electronic Devices

Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) networks deposited from a purple single chirality (6,5) SWCNT aqueous solution were electrically characterized as pure semiconductors based on metal/semiconductor/metal Schottky contacts using both complex instruments and a portable device. Both air-stable PMOS (<i>p</i>-type metal-oxide-semiconductor) and NMOS (<i>n</i>-type metal-oxide-semiconductor, resembling amorphous silicon) thin film transistors were fabricated on (6,5) SWCNT in large scale showing the characteristics of fA off current and <i>I</i>_ON/<i>I</i>_OFF ratio of >1 × 10⁸. CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) SWCNT inverter was demonstrated by wire-bonding PMOS (6,5) SWCNT TFT and NMOS (6,5) SWCNT TFT together to achieve the voltage gain as large as 52.