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Reliability and current carrying capacity of carbon nanotubes

Applied Physics Letters · 2001 · Vol. 79(8) · pp. 1172–1174

Bingqing Wei✉(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)Róbert Vajtai(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)Pulickel M. Ajayan(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

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Abstract

The current-carrying capacity and reliability studies of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under high current densities (&gt;109 A/cm2) show that no observable failure in the nanotube structure and no measurable change in the resistance are detected at temperatures up to 250 °C and for time scales up to 2 weeks. Our results suggest that nanotubes are potential candidates as interconnects in future large-scale integrated nanoelectronic devices.

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