Electronics with carbon nanotubes

From mobile phones and laptops to Xboxes and iPods, it is difficult to think of any aspect of modern life that has not been touched by developments in electronics, computing and communications over the last few decades. Many of these technological advances have arisen from our ability to create ever smaller electronic devices, in particular silicon-based field effect transistors (FETs), which has led to denser, faster and less power-hungry circuits. The problem is that this device miniaturization, or "scaling", cannot continue forever; fundamental scientific and technological limitations exist that will make it impossible to build better performing silicon devices below a certain size.