Fischer, J. E. Discussion: Electronics from organic and molecular systems.
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- To use nanotubes #1 priority is reproducively make them. Perhaps growing in cavities. But how can one control the chirality?
- CNT transistors are Schottky type, which complicates things
- Industry wants not smaller but better computer.
- Price of a Si transistor is 10-4 Cents.
- If molecular electronics components are too close one has to deal with the interactions.
- Cheap organic displays for advertisements, electronic newspapers and books are a big market.
- Problem with making new materials is that there is no venture capital for that because once materials are produced on a big scale the price becomes very low.
- 10 PhD students is 400.000 USD / year together with overhead. At IBM one man achieves a lot because they are concentrated