Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors

@article{Hills2019ModernMB,
  title={Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors},
  author={Gage Hills and Christian Lau and Andrew Wright and Samuel H. Fuller and Mindy D. Bishop and Tathagata Srimani and Pritpal S. Kanhaiya and Rebecca Ho and Aya G. Amer and Yosi Stein and Denis Murphy and Arvind and Anantha P. Chandrakasan and Max M. Shulaker},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2019},
  volume={572},
  pages={595-602}
}
Electronics is approaching a major paradigm shift because silicon transistor scaling no longer yields historical energy-efficiency benefits, spurring research towards beyond-silicon nanotechnologies. In particular, carbon nanotube field-effect transistor (CNFET)-based digital circuits promise substantial energy-efficiency benefits, but the inability to perfectly control intrinsic nanoscale defects and variability in carbon nanotubes has precluded the realization of very-large-scale integrated… 
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