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Ink Jet Printing of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Integrated Circuits

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contract: W31P4Q-09-C-0346
Agency Tracking Number: 08SB2-0329
Amount: $98,822.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: SB082-014
Solicitation Number: 2008.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2009-03-31
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-10-30
Small Business Information
409 W. Maple St.
Yadkinville, NC 27055
United States
DUNS: 041336913
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jay Gaillard
 Chief Technical Officer
 (336) 849-7474
 gaillardj@nanotechlabs.com
Business Contact
 Richard Czerw
Title: President
Phone: (336) 403-7762
Email: czerwr@nanotechlabs.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The goal of the proposed work is to evaluate the viability of printing integrated circuits using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) as the base material. Commercially, the impact of advanced printing electronics technology is significant. These technologies have the potential to reduce manufacturing costs and ultimately lead to an industry- wide improvement in manufacturing time efficiency. In this work, we plan to isolate semiconducting SWNTs using the density gradient method, and then functionalize them to be used as p- and n- type channels for ink-jet printed TFTs. In collaboration with Foster Miller and BAE systems, we will ink-jet print the SWNT solutions made at NanoTechLabs including metallic interconnects using both metallic SWNTs and small diameter metallic MWNTs. The end goal of this work is to create viable semiconducting and metallic nanotube inks along with a compatible polymeric solution which can be used to print the needed components for a nanotube-based logic circuit.

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