Improved electrical performance of carbon nanotube thin film transistors by utilizing composite networks

This work presents a simple scheme of using composite carbon nanotube networks (c-CNNs) to significantly improve the electrical performance of long-channel thin film transistors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Such c-CNNs comprise two sets of SWCNTs. A primary set consists of dense arrays of perfectly aligned long SWCNTs along the transistor channel direction. A secondary set is composed of short SWCNTs either randomly orientated or perpendicularly aligned with respect to the channel. While retaining a high on/off current ratio, the drive current in such c-CNNs is much higher than that in currently studied systems with single CNNs or SWCNT arrays.