NASA Improves Computers With Tiny Carbon Tubes On Silicon Chips

April 16, 2003 | Source: SpaceDaily

NASA has developed a chip manufacturing method that uses carbon nanotubes instead of copper interconnects for integrated circuits. This will allow manufacturers to add more layers of components to silicon chips to increase performance and maintain Moore’s law longer for silicon-based computer chips.

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes about 100 nanometers in diameter. Photo credit: NASA Ames Research Center.

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes about 100 nanometers in diameter. Photo credit: NASA Ames Research Center.