ARTIFICIAL DIELECTRICS USING NANOSTRUCTURES

    公开(公告)号:CA2580342A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-10-19

    申请号:CA2580342

    申请日:2005-08-16

    Applicant: NANOSYS INC

    Abstract: Artificial dielectrics using nanostructures, such as nanowires, are disclosed. In embodiments, artificial dielectrics using other nanostructures, such as nanorods, nanotubes or nanoribbons and the like are disclosed. The artificial dielectric includes a dielectric material with a plurality of nanowires (or other nanostructures) embedded within the dielectric material. Very high dielectric constants can be achieved with an artificial dielectric using nanostructures. The dielectric constant can be adjusted by varying the length, diameter, carrier density, shape, aspect ratio, orientation and density of the nanostructures. Additionally, a controllable artificial dielectric using nanostructures, such as nanowires, is disclosed in which the dielectric constant can be dynamically adjusted by applying an electric field to the controllable artificial dielectric. A wide range of electronic devices can use artificial dielectrics with nanostructures to improve performance. Example devices include, capacitors, thin film transistors, other types of thin film electronic devices, microstrip devices, surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters, other types of filters, and radar attenuating materials (RAM).

    INTEGRATED DISPLAYS USING NANOWIRE TRANSISTORS

    公开(公告)号:CA2499944A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-04-15

    申请号:CA2499944

    申请日:2003-09-30

    Applicant: NANOSYS INC

    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a display using nanowire transistors. I n particular, a liquid crystal display using nanowire pixel transistors, nanowire row transistors, nanowire column transistors and nanowire edge electronics is described. A nanowire pixel transistor is used to control the voltage applied across a pixel containing liquid crystals. A pair of nanowir e row transistors is used to turn nanowire pixel transistors that are located along a row trace connected to the pair of nanowire row transistors on and off. Nanowire column transistors are used to apply a voltage across nanowire pixel transistors that are located along a column trace connected to a nanowire column transistor. Displays including organic light emitting diodes (OLED) displays, nanotube field effect displays, plasma displays, micromirro r displays, micoelectromechanical (MEMs) displays, electrochromic displays and electrophoretic displays using nanowire transistors are also provided.

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