Aaron D. Franklin | Scholars@Duke

Aaron D. Franklin
Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Aaron Franklin received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 2008 and then spent six years on the research staff at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. His work at IBM focused on low-dimensional nanoelectronics with specific emphasis on carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors, including device scaling, transport studies, and diverse integration approaches. While at IBM, Dr. Franklin was awarded an Outstanding Technical Achievement recognition for his work on nanoscale CNT transistors. He was also involved in many other projects with applications including photovoltaics, thin-film transistors, and supercapacitors. Dr. Franklin joined the Duke faculty in 2014.

Research in the Franklin group is focused on improving the performance and functionality of nanomaterial-enabled electronic devices. This includes high-performance devices from low-dimensional materials, such as 2D semiconductors, 1D carbon nanotubes, and nanowires. Also included is the low-cost realm of printed electronics, which benefits from the incorporation of nanomaterials to enhance electrical transport over large printed features, along with other application-specific advantages. The primary drive of the Franklin group's research is to improve performance of, and expand applications for, electronic devices, including those with more custom form factors and/or functionality (e.g., flexibility, transparency, biocompatibility, recyclability). A growing thrust in the lab is the application of ultrasensitive, inexpensively processed nanomaterials to electronic biosensing applications. There is an increasing variety of new electronics applications that nanomaterials are uniquely capable of enabling -- the Franklin group works to make such applications possible.

Current Research Interests

Nanomaterials in electronic devices, nanofabrication, printed electronics and internet of things (IoT), biosensing

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2020 - 2023
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2020
Associate Dean for Doctoral Education in the Pratt School of Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University 2021
Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020

Contact Information

CIEMAS 3473, Durham, NC 27708
CIEMAS 3473, Durham, NC 27708
aaron.franklin@duke.edu (919) 681-9471
Group Website

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Purdue University 2008
- B.S.E., Arizona State University 2004
Duke Appointment History
- Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2017 - 2020
- Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2020
- Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2015 - 2020
- Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2014 - 2015
Recognition
In the News
- OCT 3, 2019 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Printed Electronics: It's For Material as Soft as Your Skin
- FEB 20, 2018 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Tire Sensor Technology Launches Multi-Million Dollar Startup
- JUN 15, 2017 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Printed Sensors Monitor Tire Wear in Real Time
- APR 28, 2017
  
  Energy Initiative Awards Seven New Seed Grants
- SEP 15, 2014 Pratt School of Engineering
  
  Aaron Franklin: Replacing Silicon Electronics with Nanomaterials
Research
Selected Grants
- Printed Electronic Biosensors for Point-of-Care Testing of Cardiovascular Biomarkers awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2024
- 1D Edge Contacts to 2D Devices for Scalability and 3D Integration with Via-formed Junctions awarded by National Science Foundation 2019 - 2022
- A Point-of-Injury Screening Assay for Tactical Damage Control Resuscitation awarded by United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command 2017 - 2021
- Point of Care Testing to Improve Monitoring of LVAD Patients awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2020
- GAANN - Department of Chemistry awarded by Department of Education 2015 - 2019
- Printable immunoassays using nanomaterial transistors for biological detection of severe acute malnutrition awarded by National Institutes of Health 2018 - 2019
- High Linearity RF Amplifiers from Carbon Nanotubes awarded by Carbon Technology, Inc. 2019
- EAGER: Exploring the Negative Capacitance Effect from Hf-Based Ferroelectrics and 2D Nanomaterials for Low-Voltage Transistors awarded by National Science Foundation 2016 - 2019
- Engineering Atomic Layer Deposited Contact Interfaces to Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Improved Scaled Transistor Performance awarded by National Science Foundation 2015 - 2018
- Nanomaterial-Enabled Printed Electronics for Advanced Tire Monitoring System awarded by Fetch Networks, LLC 2015 - 2018
- 1.2.2 Nanoelectronics and Nanosensors for Army Applications : Exploring the Vertical to Plane Electronic Properties of Layered Two Dimensional Materials awarded by Army Research Laboratory 2016 - 2017
External Relationships
- Tyrata. Inc.
- Versametrics LLC
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Williams, N. X., G. Bullard, N. Brooke, M. J. Therien, and A. D. Franklin. “Printable and recyclable carbon electronics using crystalline nanocellulose dielectrics.” Nature Electronics 4, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): 261–68. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-021-00574-0.
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  - Lin, Y. C., G. B. Rayner, J. Cardenas, and A. D. Franklin. “Short-channel robustness from negative capacitance in 2D NC-FETs.” Applied Physics Letters 118, no. 10 (March 8, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0030555.
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  - Cardenas, Jorge A., Shiheng Lu, Nicholas X. Williams, James L. Doherty, and Aaron D. Franklin. “In-Place Printing of Flexible Electrolyte-Gated Carbon Nanotube Transistors with Enhanced Stability.” Ieee Electron Device Letters : A Publication of the Ieee Electron Devices Society 42, no. 3 (March 2021): 367–70. https://doi.org/10.1109/led.2021.3055787.
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  - Abuzaid, H., N. X. Williams, and A. D. Franklin. “How good are 2D transistors? An application-specific benchmarking study.” Applied Physics Letters 118, no. 3 (January 18, 2021). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0029712.
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  - Williams, Nicholas X., Brittani Carroll, Steven G. Noyce, Hansel Alex Hobbie, Daniel Y. Joh, Joseph G. Rogers, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Fully printed prothrombin time sensor for point-of-care testing.” Biosens Bioelectron 172 (January 15, 2021): 112770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2020.112770.
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  - Shen, C., S. Lu, Z. Tian, S. Yang, J. A. Cardenas, J. Li, X. Peng, T. J. Huang, A. D. Franklin, and S. A. Cummer. “Electrically Tunable Surface Acoustic Wave Propagation at MHz Frequencies Based on Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors.” Advanced Functional Materials, January 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202010744.
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  - Abuzaid, H., Z. Cheng, G. Li, L. Cao, and A. D. Franklin. “Unanticipated Polarity Shift in Edge-contacted Tungsten-based 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Transistors.” Ieee Electron Device Letters, January 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2021.3106286.
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  - Cardenas, J. A., H. Tsang, H. Tong, H. Abuzaid, K. Price, M. A. Cruz, B. J. Wiley, A. D. Franklin, and N. Lazarus. “Flash ablation metallization of conductive thermoplastics.” Additive Manufacturing 36 (December 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2020.101409.
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  - Lu, Shiheng, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Printed carbon nanotube thin-film transistors: progress on printable materials and the path to applications.” Nanoscale 12, no. 46 (December 2020): 23371–90. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0nr06231f.
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  - Lu, Shiheng, Joanne Zheng, Jorge A. Cardenas, Nicholas X. Williams, Yuh-Chen Lin, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Uniform and Stable Aerosol Jet Printing of Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors by Ink Temperature Control.” Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, no. 38 (September 8, 2020): 43083–89. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c12046.
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  - Noyce, Steven G., James L. Doherty, Stefan Zauscher, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Understanding and Mapping Sensitivity in MoS₂ Field-Effect-Transistor-Based Sensors.” Acs Nano 14, no. 9 (September 2020): 11637–47. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c04192.
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  - Doherty, James L., Steven G. Noyce, Zhihui Cheng, Hattan Abuzaid, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Capping Layers to Improve the Electrical Stress Stability of MoS₂ Transistors.” Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 12, no. 31 (August 2020): 35698–706. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c08647.
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  - Williams, Nicholas X., Nathan Watson, Daniel Y. Joh, Ashutosh Chilkoti, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Aerosol jet printing of biological inks by ultrasonic delivery.” Biofabrication 12, no. 2 (February 4, 2020): 025004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/ab5cf5.
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  - Lu, Shiheng, Jorge A. Cardenas, Robyn Worsley, Nicholas X. Williams, Joseph B. Andrews, Cinzia Casiraghi, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Flexible, Print-in-Place 1D-2D Thin-Film Transistors Using Aerosol Jet Printing.” Acs Nano 13, no. 10 (October 3, 2019): 11263–72. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b04337.
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  - Andrews, J. B., P. Ballentine, J. A. Cardenas, C. J. Lim, N. X. Williams, J. B. Summers, M. A. Stangler, D. A. Koester, S. A. Cummer, and A. D. Franklin. “Printed electronic sensor array for mapping tire tread thickness profiles.” Ieee Sensors Journal 19, no. 19 (October 1, 2019): 8913–19. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2019.2918061.
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  - Cheng, Zhihui, Yifei Yu, Shreya Singh, Katherine Price, Steven G. Noyce, Yuh-Chen Lin, Linyou Cao, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Immunity to Contact Scaling in MoS₂ Transistors Using in Situ Edge Contacts.” Nano Letters 19, no. 8 (August 2019): 5077–85. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01355.
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  - Williams, Nicholas X., Steven Noyce, Jorge A. Cardenas, Matthew Catenacci, Benjamin J. Wiley, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Silver nanowire inks for direct-write electronic tattoo applications.” Nanoscale 11, no. 30 (August 2019): 14294–302. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9nr03378e.
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  - Cheng, Z., H. Abuzaid, Y. Yu, F. Zhang, Y. Li, S. G. Noyce, N. X. Williams, et al. “Convergent ion beam alteration of 2D materials and metal-2D interfaces.” 2d Materials 6, no. 3 (June 6, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab1764.
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  - Noyce, Steven G., James L. Doherty, Zhihui Cheng, Hui Han, Shane Bowen, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Electronic Stability of Carbon Nanotube Transistors Under Long-Term Bias Stress.” Nano Letters 19, no. 3 (March 2019): 1460–66. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b03986.
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  - Cardenas, J. A., S. Upshaw, N. X. Williams, M. J. Catenacci, B. J. Wiley, and A. D. Franklin. “Impact of Morphology on Printed Contact Performance in Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors.” Advanced Functional Materials 29, no. 1 (January 4, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201805727.
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  - Lin, Y. C., F. McGuire, S. Noyce, N. Williams, Z. Cheng, J. Andrews, and A. D. Franklin. “Effects of Gate Stack Composition and Thickness in 2-D Negative Capacitance FETs.” Ieee Journal of the Electron Devices Society 7 (January 1, 2019): 645–49. https://doi.org/10.1109/JEDS.2019.2922441.
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  - Andrews, J. B., J. A. Cardenas, C. J. Lim, S. G. Noyce, J. Mullett, and A. D. Franklin. “Fully Printed and Flexible Carbon Nanotube Transistors for Pressure Sensing in Automobile Tires.” Ieee Sensors Journal 18, no. 19 (October 1, 2018): 7875–80. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2018.2842139.
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  - Cheng, Z., K. Price, and A. D. Franklin. “Contacting and Gating 2-D Nanomaterials.” Ieee Transactions on Electron Devices 65, no. 10 (October 1, 2018): 4073–83. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2018.2865642.
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  - Andrews, Joseph B., Kunal Mondal, Taylor V. Neumann, Jorge A. Cardenas, Justin Wang, Dishit P. Parekh, Yiliang Lin, Peter Ballentine, Michael D. Dickey, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Patterned Liquid Metal Contacts for Printed Carbon Nanotube Transistors.” Acs Nano 12, no. 6 (June 2018): 5482–88. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b00909.
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  - Najmaei, Sina, Mahesh R. Neupane, Barbara M. Nichols, Robert A. Burke, Alexander L. Mazzoni, Matthew L. Chin, Daniel A. Rhodes, Luis Balicas, Aaron D. Franklin, and Madan Dubey. “Cross-Plane Carrier Transport in Van der Waals Layered Materials.” Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany) 14, no. 20 (May 2018): e1703808. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201703808.
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  - Lin, Y. C., F. McGuire, and A. D. Franklin. “Realizing ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 with elemental capping layers.” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Nanotechnology and Microelectronics 36, no. 1 (January 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5002558.
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  - Franklin, A. D., D. Jena, and D. Akinwande. “75 years of the Device Research Conference - A history worth repeating.” Ieee Journal of the Electron Devices Society 6, no. 1 (December 5, 2017): 116–20. https://doi.org/10.1109/JEDS.2017.2780778.
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  - Liu, J., Q. Han, Y. Bai, K. Z. Du, T. Li, D. Ji, Y. Zhou, et al. “Additive engineering for high-performance room-temperature-processed perovskite absorbers with micron-size grains and microsecond-range carrier lifetimes.” Energy and Environmental Science 10, no. 11 (November 1, 2017): 2365–71. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ee02272g.
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  - McGuire, Felicia A., Yuh-Chen Lin, Katherine Price, G Bruce Rayner, Sourabh Khandelwal, Sayeef Salahuddin, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Sustained Sub-60 mV/decade Switching via the Negative Capacitance Effect in MoS₂ Transistors.” Nano Letters 17, no. 8 (August 2017): 4801–6. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01584.
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  - Andrews, J. B., C. Cao, M. A. Brooke, and A. D. Franklin. “Noninvasive material thickness detection by aerosol jet printed sensors enhanced through metallic carbon nanotube ink.” Ieee Sensors Journal 17, no. 14 (July 15, 2017): 4612–18. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2017.2710085.
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  - Catenacci, M. J., P. F. Flowers, C. Cao, J. B. Andrews, A. D. Franklin, and B. J. Wiley. “Fully Printed Memristors from Cu–SiO2 Core–Shell Nanowire Composites.” Journal of Electronic Materials 46, no. 7 (July 1, 2017): 4596–4603. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-017-5445-5.
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  - Price, Katherine M., Kirstin E. Schauble, Felicia A. McGuire, Damon B. Farmer, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Uniform Growth of Sub-5-Nanometer High-κ Dielectrics on MoS₂ Using Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition.” Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, no. 27 (July 2017): 23072–80. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00538.
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  - Cao, C., J. B. Andrews, and A. D. Franklin. “Completely Printed, Flexible, Stable, and Hysteresis-Free Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors via Aerosol Jet Printing.” Advanced Electronic Materials 3, no. 5 (May 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201700057.
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  - Cox, Nathanael D., Cory D. Cress, Jamie E. Rossi, Ivan Puchades, Andrew Merrill, Aaron D. Franklin, and Brian J. Landi. “Modification of Silver/Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube Electrical Contact Interfaces via Ion Irradiation.” Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, no. 8 (March 2017): 7406–11. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b14041.
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  - Joh, Daniel Y., Felicia McGuire, Roozbeh Abedini-Nassab, Joseph B. Andrews, Rohan K. Achar, Zackary Zimmers, Darush Mozhdehi, et al. “Poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate) Brushes on High-κ Metal Oxide Dielectric Surfaces for Bioelectrical Environments.” Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, no. 6 (February 2, 2017): 5522–29. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b15836.
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  - Najmaei, Sina, Sidong Lei, Robert A. Burke, Barbara M. Nichols, Antony George, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Aaron D. Franklin, Jun Lou, and Madan Dubey. “Enabling Ultrasensitive Photo-detection Through Control of Interface Properties in Molybdenum Disulfide Atomic Layers.” Scientific Reports 6 (December 20, 2016): 39465. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39465.
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  - Cheng, Z., J. A. Cardenas, F. McGuire, S. Najmaei, and A. D. Franklin. “Modifying the Ni-MoS2 Contact Interface Using a Broad-Beam Ion Source.” Ieee Electron Device Letters 37, no. 9 (September 1, 2016): 1234–37. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2016.2591552.
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  - McGuire, F. A., Z. Cheng, K. Price, and A. D. Franklin. “Sub-60 mV/decade switching in 2D negative capacitance field-effect transistors with integrated ferroelectric polymer.” Applied Physics Letters 109, no. 9 (August 29, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4961108.
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  - Cao, Changyong, Joseph B. Andrews, Abhinay Kumar, and Aaron D. Franklin. “Improving Contact Interfaces in Fully Printed Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors.” Acs Nano 10, no. 5 (May 2016): 5221–29. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b00877.
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  - Cao, Q., S. J. Han, J. Tersoff, A. D. Franklin, Y. Zhu, Z. Zhang, G. S. Tulevski, J. Tang, and W. Haensch. “End-bonded contacts for carbon nanotube transistors with low, size-independent resistance.” Science 350, no. 6256 (October 2, 2015): 68–72. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac8006.
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  - Lee, C. S., E. Pop, A. D. Franklin, W. Haensch, and H. S. P. Wong. “A Compact Virtual-Source Model for Carbon Nanotube FETs in the Sub-10-nm Regime-Part I: Intrinsic Elements.” Ieee Transactions on Electron Devices 62, no. 9 (September 1, 2015): 3061–69. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2015.2457453.
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  - Lee, C. S., E. Pop, A. D. Franklin, W. Haensch, and H. S. P. Wong. “A compact virtual-source model for carbon nanotube FETs in the sub-10-nm regime - Part II: Extrinsic elements, performance assessment, and design optimization.” Ieee Transactions on Electron Devices 62, no. 9 (September 1, 2015): 3070–78. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2015.2457424.
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  - Li, Jinghua, Aaron D. Franklin, and Jie Liu. “Gate-Free Electrical Breakdown of Metallic Pathways in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Crossbar Networks.” Nano Letters 15, no. 9 (September 2015): 6058–65. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02261.
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  - Franklin, Aaron D. “DEVICE TECHNOLOGY. Nanomaterials in transistors: From high-performance to thin-film applications.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349, no. 6249 (August 2015): aab2750. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab2750.
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  - Tulevski, G. S., A. D. Franklin, D. Frank, J. M. Lobez, Q. Cao, H. Park, A. Afzali, S. J. Han, J. B. Hannon, and W. Haensch. “Toward high-performance digital logic technology with carbon nanotubes.” Acs Nano 8, no. 9 (September 23, 2014): 8730–45. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn503627h.
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  - Kim, B., A. Franklin, C. Nuckolls, W. Haensch, and G. S. Tulevski. “Achieving low-voltage thin-film transistors using carbon nanotubes.” Applied Physics Letters 105, no. 6 (August 11, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4891335.
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  - Franklin, Aaron D., Damon B. Farmer, and Wilfried Haensch. “Defining and overcoming the contact resistance challenge in scaled carbon nanotube transistors.” Acs Nano 8, no. 7 (July 7, 2014): 7333–39. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn5024363.
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  - Shahrjerdi, D., A. D. Franklin, S. Oida, J. A. Ott, G. S. Tulevski, and W. Haensch. “High-performance air-stable n-type carbon nanotube transistors with erbium contacts.” Acs Nano 7, no. 9 (September 24, 2013): 8303–8. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn403935v.
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  - Franklin, A. D. “Electronics: The road to carbon nanotube transistors.” Nature 498, no. 7455 (July 8, 2013): 443–44. https://doi.org/10.1038/498443a.
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  - Franklin, A. D., S. O. Koswatta, D. B. Farmer, J. T. Smith, L. Gignac, C. M. Breslin, S. J. Han, et al. “Carbon nanotube complementary wrap-gate transistors.” Nano Letters 13, no. 6 (June 12, 2013): 2490–95. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl400544q.
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  - Luo, J., L. Wei, C. S. Lee, A. D. Franklin, X. Guan, E. Pop, D. A. Antoniadis, and H. S. Philip Wong. “Compact model for carbon nanotube field-effect transistors including nonidealities and calibrated with experimental data down to 9-nm gate length.” Ieee Transactions on Electron Devices 60, no. 6 (May 15, 2013): 1834–43. https://doi.org/10.1109/TED.2013.2258023.
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  - Smith, Joshua T., Aaron D. Franklin, Damon B. Farmer, and Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos. “Reducing contact resistance in graphene devices through contact area patterning.” Acs Nano 7, no. 4 (April 2013): 3661–67. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn400671z.
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  - Tulevski, George S., Aaron D. Franklin, and Ali Afzali. “High purity isolation and quantification of semiconducting carbon nanotubes via column chromatography.” Acs Nano 7, no. 4 (April 2013): 2971–76. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn400053k.
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  - Franklin, A. D., S. Oida, D. B. Farmer, J. T. Smith, S. J. Han, C. M. Breslin, and L. Gignac. “Stacking graphene channels in parallel for enhanced performance with the same footprint.” Ieee Electron Device Letters 34, no. 4 (February 22, 2013): 556–58. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2013.2242428.
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  - Franklin, A. D., N. A. Bojarczuk, and M. Copel. “Consistently low subthreshold swing in carbon nanotube transistors using lanthanum oxide.” Applied Physics Letters 102, no. 1 (January 7, 2013). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4774000.
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  - Cao, Q., S. J. Han, G. S. Tulevski, A. D. Franklin, and W. Haensch. “Evaluation of field-effect mobility and contact resistance of transistors that use solution-processed single-walled carbon nanotubes.” Acs Nano 6, no. 7 (July 24, 2012): 6471–77. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn302185d.
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  - Han, Shu-Jen, Dharmendar Reddy, Gary D. Carpenter, Aaron D. Franklin, and Keith A. Jenkins. “Current saturation in submicrometer graphene transistors with thin gate dielectric: experiment, simulation, and theory.” Acs Nano 6, no. 6 (June 2012): 5220–26. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn300978c.
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  - Franklin, A. D., G. S. Tulevski, S. J. Han, D. Shahrjerdi, Q. Cao, H. Y. Chen, H. S. P. Wong, and W. Haensch. “Variability in carbon nanotube transistors: Improving device-to-device consistency.” Acs Nano 6, no. 2 (February 28, 2012): 1109–15. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn203516z.
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  - Franklin, Aaron D., Mathieu Luisier, Shu-Jen Han, George Tulevski, Chris M. Breslin, Lynne Gignac, Mark S. Lundstrom, and Wilfried Haensch. “Sub-10 nm carbon nanotube transistor.” Nano Letters 12, no. 2 (February 2012): 758–62. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl203701g.
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  - Franklin, A. D., S. J. Han, A. A. Bol, and V. Perebeinos. “Double contacts for improved performance of graphene transistors.” Ieee Electron Device Letters 33, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 17–19. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2011.2173154.
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  - Park, H., A. Afzali, S. J. Han, G. S. Tulevski, A. D. Franklin, J. Tersoff, J. B. Hannon, and W. Haensch. “High-density integration of carbon nanotubes via chemical self-assembly.” Nature Nanotechnology 7, no. 12 (January 1, 2012): 787–91. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.189.
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  - Han, S. J., K. A. Jenkins, A. Valdes Garcia, A. D. Franklin, A. A. Bol, and W. Haensch. “High-frequency graphene voltage amplifier.” Nano Letters 11, no. 9 (September 14, 2011): 3690–93. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl2016637.
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  - Franklin, A. D., S. J. Han, A. A. Bol, and W. Haensch. “Effects of nanoscale contacts to graphene.” Ieee Electron Device Letters 32, no. 8 (August 1, 2011): 1035–37. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2011.2158058.
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  - Franklin, A. D., A. Lin, H. S. P. Wong, and Z. Chen. “Current scaling in aligned carbon nanotube array transistors with local bottom gating.” Ieee Electron Device Letters 31, no. 7 (July 1, 2010): 644–46. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2010.2047231.
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  - Sayer, R. A., S. Kim, A. D. Franklin, S. Mohammadi, and T. S. Fisher. “Shot noise thermometry for thermal characterization of templated carbon nanotubes.” Ieee Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies 33, no. 1 (March 1, 2010): 178–83. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAPT.2009.2038488.
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  - Franklin, A. D., and Z. Chen. “Length scaling of carbon nanotube transistors.” Nature Nanotechnology 5, no. 12 (January 1, 2010): 858–62. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.220.
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  - Westover, T. L., A. D. Franklin, B. A. Cola, T. S. Fisher, and R. G. Reifenberger. “Photo- and thermionic emission from potassium-intercalated carbon nanotube arrays.” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B:Nanotechnology and Microelectronics 28, no. 2 (January 1, 2010): 423–34. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.3368466.
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  - Franklin, A. D., R. A. Sayer, T. D. Sands, D. B. Janes, and T. S. Fisher. “Vertical carbon nanotube devices with nanoscale lengths controlled without lithography.” Ieee Transactions on Nanotechnology 8, no. 4 (July 1, 2009): 469–76. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2009.2012399.
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  - Franklin, A. D., R. A. Sayer, T. D. Sands, T. S. Fisher, and D. B. Janes. “Toward surround gates on vertical single-walled carbon nanotube devices.” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures 27, no. 2 (April 20, 2009): 821–26. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.3054266.
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  - Claussen, Jonathan C., Aaron D. Franklin, Aeraj Ul Haque, D Marshall Porterfield, and Timothy S. Fisher. “Electrochemical biosensor of nanocube-augmented carbon nanotube networks.” Acs Nano 3, no. 1 (January 2009): 37–44. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn800682m.
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  - Voggu, R., C. S. Rout, A. D. Franklin, T. S. Fisher, and C. N. R. Rao. “Extraordinary sensitivity of the electronic structure and properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes to molecular charge-transfer.” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112, no. 34 (August 28, 2008): 13053–56. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp805136e.
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  - Smith, J. T., Q. Hang, A. D. Franklin, D. B. Janes, and T. D. Sands. “Highly ordered diamond and hybrid triangle-diamond patterns in porous anodic alumina thin films.” Applied Physics Letters 93, no. 4 (August 15, 2008). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2957991.
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  - Franklin, A. D., D. B. Janes, J. C. Claussen, T. S. Fisher, and T. D. Sands. “Independently addressable fields of porous anodic alumina embedded in Si O2 on Si.” Applied Physics Letters 92, no. 1 (January 16, 2008). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2831002.
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  - Maschmann, M. R., A. D. Franklin, T. D. Sands, and T. S. Fisher. “Optimization of carbon nanotube synthesis from porous anodic Al-Fe-Al templates.” Carbon 45, no. 11 (October 1, 2007): 2290–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2007.05.031.
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  - Franklin, A. D., J. T. Smith, T. Sands, T. S. Fisher, K. S. Choi, and D. B. Janes. “Controlled decoration of single-walled carbon nanotubes with Pd nanocubes.” Journal of Physical Chemistry C 111, no. 37 (September 20, 2007): 13756–62. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp074411e.
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  - Franklin, A. D., M. R. Maschmann, M. DaSilva, D. B. Janes, T. S. Fisher, and T. D. Sands. “In-place fabrication of nanowire electrode arrays for vertical nanoelectronics on Si substrates.” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures 25, no. 2 (April 8, 2007): 343–47. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.2647379.
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  - Maschmann, M. R., A. D. Franklin, A. Scott, D. B. Janes, T. D. Sands, and T. S. Fisher. “Lithography-free in situ Pd contacts to templated single-walled carbon nanotubes.” Nano Letters 6, no. 12 (December 1, 2006): 2712–17. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl061652+.
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  - Maschmann, M. R., A. D. Franklin, P. B. Amama, D. N. Zakharov, E. A. Stach, T. D. Sands, and T. S. Fisher. “Vertical single- and double-walled carbon nanotubes grown from modified porous anodic alumina templates.” Nanotechnology 17, no. 15 (August 14, 2006): 3925–29. https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/17/15/052.
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  - Franklin, A. D. “Carbon Nanotube Electronics.” In Emerging Nanoelectronic Devices, 9781118447741:315–35, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118958254.ch16.
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  - Coonley, K. D., A. G. Culbert, and A. Franklin. “BYOE: Microelectronic non-idealities laboratory explorations.” In Asee Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2020-June, 2020.
  - Cardenas, J. A., S. Lu, N. X. Wiliiams, and A. D. Franklin. “Full In-Place Printing of Flexible Electrolyte-Gated CNT-TFTs.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 2019-June:137–38, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC46940.2019.9046337.
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  - Cheng, Z., H. Abuzaid, Y. Yu, S. Singh, L. Cao, and A. D. Franklin. “New Observations in Contact Scaling for 2D FETs.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 2019-June:227–28, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC46940.2019.9046480.
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  - Lu, S., J. A. Cardenas, R. Worsley, N. X. Williams, J. B. Andrews, C. Casiraghi, and A. D. Franklin. “Printing h-BN Gate Dielectric for Flexible, Low-hysteresis Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors at Low Temperature.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 2019-June:61–62, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC46940.2019.9046417.
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  - Cardenas, J. A., S. Upshaw, M. J. Catenaccr, B. J. Wiley, and A. D. Franklin. “Exploring silver contact morphologies in printed carbon nanotube thin-film transistors.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, Vol. 2018-June, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2018.8442217.
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  - Noyce, S. G., J. L. Doherty, and A. D. Franklin. “Bias stress stability of carbon nanotube transistors with implications for sensors.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, Vol. 2018-June, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2018.8442226.
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  - Andrews, J. B., J. A. Cardenas, J. Mullett, and A. D. Franklin. “Fully printed and flexible carbon nanotube transistors designed for environmental pressure sensing and aimed at smart tire applications.” In Proceedings of Ieee Sensors, 2017-December:1–3, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8233875.
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  - Catenacci, M. J., P. F. Flowers, C. Cao, J. B. Andrews, A. D. Franklin, and B. J. Wiley. “Fully printed memristors from Cu-SiO2 core-shell nanowire composites.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2017.7999482.
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  - Cheng, Z., K. Price, and A. D. Franklin. “Edge contacts to multilayer MoS2 using in situ Ar ion beam.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2017.7999454.
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  - McGuire, F. A., Y. C. Lin, B. Rayner, and A. D. Franklin. “MoS2 negative capacitance FETs with CMOS-compatible hafnium zirconium oxide.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2017.7999478.
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  - Price, K. M., and A. D. Franklin. “Integration of 3.4 nm HfO2 into the gate stack of MOS2 and WSe2 top-gate field-effect transistors.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2017.7999405.
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  - Franklin, A. D. “Scaling, stacking, and printing: How 1D and 2D nanomaterials still hold promise for a new era of electronics.” In Digest of Technical Papers Symposium on Vlsi Technology, T44–45, 2017. https://doi.org/10.23919/VLSIT.2017.7998194.
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  - Cheng, Z., J. A. Cardenas, F. McGuire, and A. D. Franklin. “Using Ar Ion beam exposure to improve contact resistance in MoS2 FETs.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, Vol. 2016-August, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2016.7548484.
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  - Franklin, A. D., and W. Haensch. “Defining and overcoming the contact resistance challenge in scaled carbon nanotube transistors.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 191–92, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2014.6872362.
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  - Franklin, A. D., S. O. Koswatta, D. Farmer, G. S. Tulevski, J. T. Smith, H. Miyazoe, and W. Haensch. “Scalable and fully self-aligned n-type carbon nanotube transistors with gate-all-around.” In Technical Digest International Electron Devices Meeting, Iedm, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2012.6478979.
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  - Franklin, A. D., S. J. Han, G. S. Tulevski, M. Luisier, C. M. Breslin, L. Gignac, M. S. Lundstrom, and W. Haensch. “Sub-10 nm carbon nanotube transistor.” In Technical Digest International Electron Devices Meeting, Iedm, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2011.6131600.
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  - Han, S. J., A. Valdes-Garcia, A. A. Bol, A. D. Franklin, D. Farmer, E. Kratschmer, K. A. Jenkins, and W. Haensch. “Graphene technology with inverted-T gate and RF passives on 200 mm platform.” In Technical Digest International Electron Devices Meeting, Iedm, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2011.6131473.
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  - Shahrjerdi, D., A. D. Franklin, S. Oida, G. S. Tulevski, S. J. Han, J. B. Hannon, and W. Haensch. “High device yield carbon nanotube NFETs for high-performance logic applications.” In Technical Digest International Electron Devices Meeting, Iedm, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2011.6131596.
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  - Han, S. J., J. Chang, A. D. Franklin, A. A. Bol, R. Loesing, D. Guo, G. S. Tulevski, W. Haensch, and Z. Chen. “Wafer scale fabrication of carbon nanotube FETs with embedded poly-gates.” In Technical Digest International Electron Devices Meeting, Iedm, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2010.5703326.
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  - Franklin, A. D., A. A. Bol, and Z. Chen. “Channel and contact length scaling in carbon nanotube transistors.” In Device Research Conference Conference Digest, Drc, 275–76, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1109/DRC.2010.5551963.
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  - Franklin, A. D., G. Tulevski, J. B. Hannon, and Z. Chen. “Can carbon nanotube transistors be scaled without performance degradation?” In Technical Digest International Electron Devices Meeting, Iedm, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1109/IEDM.2009.5424296.
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  - Westover, T. L., T. S. Fisher, A. D. Franklin, and R. G. Reifenberger. “Photo-and thermionic emission from potassium-intercalated single-walled carbon nanotube arrays.” In 2008 Proceedings of 3rd Energy Nanotechnology International Conference, Enic 2008, 1–10, 2009.
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