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.
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- Question One: What is a carbon nanotube? (22 SECONDS)
- Question Two: How might carbon nanotubes be used in the electronics industry? (1:35 MINUTES)
- Question Three: What are some of the challenges in computer chip manufacturing, as chips get smaller and more powerful over time? (1:31 MINUTES)
- Question Four: Can you make carbon nanotube interconnects smaller than copper interconnects in computer chips? (1:40 MINUTES)
- Question Five: What is the effect, if any, of carbon nanotubes on the speed of computer chips? (1:14 MINUTES)
- Question Six: Does your process to put carbon nanotubes in computer chips as interconnects dovetail with today’s manufacturing processes? (57 SECONDS)
- Question Seven: What are the three steps taken to put carbon nanotube interconnects in computer chips? (1:35 MINUTES)
- Question Eight: What do carbon nanotubes look like under the electron microscope? (2:11 MINUTES)
- Question Nine: How soon do you think your carbon nanotube process to make interconnects will be used in commercially available computer chips? (1:18 MINUTES)
- Question Ten: Why is NASA developing uses for carbon nanotubes?(2:11 MINUTES)
- Question Eleven: What is the next step after silicon computer chips? (1:03 MINUTES)
- Question Twelve: How did your team invent the process that includes using carbon nanotubes in silicon chips as 'interconnects?(1:00 MINUTE)
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