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Links to broadcast quality audio files and transcripts -- Dr. Meyya Meyyappan, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. interviewed about using carbon nanotubes as 'iuterconnects' in integrated circuits or 'silicon chips.' Issued April 14, 2003.

Question 6. Does your process to put carbon nanotubes in computer chips as interconnects dovetail with today’s manufacturing processes?

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6. Does your process to put carbon nanotubes in computer chips as interconnects dovetail with today’s manufacturing processes? (57 seconds)

Dr. Meyya Meyyappan: "Anytime when you introduce a new material into an existing manufacturing, one has got to be very careful about introducing a processing technique that is robust, and that is not going to have any unwanted effects, and so on and so forth. And, so, even though people have known that the carbon nanotube has got the potential to be an interconnect in the computer manufacturing, no one to this date has known how to go about reliably integrating this material into an existing manufacturing sequence. And so, that is what the NASA Ames invention is that we have come up with the process that is compatible with the manufacturing practice being used today in the semiconductor business."

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