ABSTRACT:  Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based electronics has been considered one of the most promising candidates to replace Si complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, which will soon meet its performance limit. Prototype device studies on individual CNTs revealed that CNT based devices have the potential to outperform Si CMOS technology in both performance and power consumption, especially at sub-10 nm technology nodes, which are close to the theoretical limits; and various optoelectronic device such as light-emitting diodes, photodetectors and photovoltaic (PV) cells have been demonstrated. Very recently, both p-type devices and integrated systems were fabricated using CNT films. However, the key performance metrics demonstrated by these devices are still substantially lower than those of conventional semiconductor based devices. In this talk, I will discuss the use of randomly oriented CNT film to build CNT CMOS and optoelectronic devices, and show that the performance of CNT film devices and systems can be dramatically improved by optimizing the material purity, device structure and fabrication processes, thus yielding CNT devices with outstanding performance comparable to that of Si CMOS and ICs working in the GHz regime, and integrated electronic and optoelectronic systems for communications between nanoelectronic circuits using CNT devices.

BIOSKETCH: Lian-Mao Peng received his B.S. in Physical Electronics from Peking University in 1982 and his Ph.D in Physics from Arizona State University in 1988, and spent the following six years working at the University of Oxford. He returned to China in 1995, first as a senior research scientist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and then joined the faculty of the Peking University and became the Yangzi Professor of Nanoscale Science and Technology in 1999, Director of the Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices in 2004，Head of the Department of Electronics in 2007, and Director of the Center for Carbon based Nanoelectronics in 2015. His current research focuses on carbon-based high performance electronic and optoelectronic devices, and nanostructured photoelectrode materials and solar cells. He has published over 400 research papers, with citation of over 14800. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Physics.