| The dissertation is a study of data taken from carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNTFET). The data presented was taken at two locations, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA and at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. The samples are exposed to very low temperature using dilution refrigerator techniques and placed in high magnetic fields using a superconducting magnet.;One of the main focuses will be on the effect an external magnetic field can produce on the transport properties of a CNTFET. Particular attention will be paid to the Kondo effect and Coulomb blockade phenomena. Comparisons are drawn between the observed behavior of the samples studied and with published works on carbon nanotube electronics and traditional semiconductor quantum dots. |
