Field‐Effect Transistors: Unique Role of Self‐Assembled Monolayers in Carbon Nanomaterial‐Based Field‐Effect Transistors (Small 8/2013)

Integrated electrical circuits are described by H. Chen and X. Guo through the combination of bottom-up self-assembly and top-down device fabrication. In each device on page 1144, self-assembled monolayers are used as active layers and carbon nanomaterials (such as single-walled carbon nanotubes or graphene) act as nanoelectrodes, forming stimuli-responsive high-performance organic field-effect transistors. In conjunction with their miniaturized dimensions, the ability to integrate these hybrid devices into current CMOS technology has the potential to create multifunctional integrated circuits as a significant step towards practical molecular devices.