Functional device and method of manufacturing it

US7642541B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• SONY GROUP CORPORATION · JP
• Sony Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Eriko Matsui · Tokyo, JP
• William Ford · Stuttgart, DE
• Jurina Wessels · Stuttgart, DE
• Akio Yasuda · Eßlingen, DE
• Ryuichiro Maruyama · Yokohama, JP
• Tsuyonobu Hatazawa · Tokyo, JP

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 3, 2006
• Grant date: Jan 5, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/938
• WIPO field: Micro-structural and nano-technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A functional device which is composed of a nanometer-sized functional structure, which can reduce connection resistance in connecting the functional structure to an external electrode, and which includes a wiring section capable of minimizing constraints given to structural designs of various functional structures, and a method of manufacturing it are provided. A functional device in which a functional structure having contained sections in positions spaced from each other is retained by a carbon nanotube. A gap is formed in the carbon nanotube, and the carbon nanotube is segmented into a first carbon nanotube and a second carbon nanotube by the gap. One of the contained sections is contained in the first carbon nanotube at an opening of the first carbon nanotube facing the gap, and the other of the contained sections is contained in the second carbon nanotube at an opening of the second carbon nanotube facing the gap.