Nanoelectromechanical devices exhibiting dramatically improved robustness through novel material selection are demonstrated. A unique combination of carbon nanotube active elements and conductive diamond-like carbon contact electrodes results in reliable switching performance not found in devices with ubiquitously-used metal thin film electrodes. This in turn represents a viable means to improv...

Related Articles Charge transport in dual-gate organic field-effect transistors APL: Org. Electron. Photonics 5, 20 (2012) Top-gate thin-film transistors based on GaN channel layer Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 022111 (2012) Charge transport in dual-gate organic field-effect transistors Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 023308 (2012) Solid polyelectrolyte-gated surface conductive diamond field effect transistors...

Application of segment-structured tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) film on soft metal substrate is proposed to improve wear resistance mechanical parts. It was generally considered that continuous structure ta-C effective when applied hard materials because it could not follow deformation material and the tended delaminate. In contrast, by applying segment film, tribological properties coate...

Diamond films were deposited from graphite etching as a carbon source with atomic hydrogen instead of using conventional hydrocarbon in the feed gas. A graphite plate was used as sample support in a hot filament chemical vapour deposition reactor. Graphite temperature, gas flow rate as well as the pressure inside the reactor presented a strong influence on the diamond growth rate, morphology an...

Liquid gas was used to produce DLC films on Cu, Al and steel substrates by DC plasma technique. The absorption in IR reflectance indicates, grown films are DLC. By deconvolution of room temperature UVvisible spectra of the films grown at 50 mtorr and 200C, in addition to the spectra lines reported for CL, PL, PLC and ESR, some new spectra lines were obtained. We also, have seen exciton absorpti...