High-speed graphene transistors with a self-aligned nanowire gate

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7313, 2010, Pages 305-308

  Liao, Lei ^a   Lin, Yung Chen ^a   Bao, Mingqiang ^a   Cheng, Rui ^a   Bai, Jingwei ^a   Liu, Yuan ^a   Qu, Yongquan ^a   Wang, Kang L ^a   Huang, Yu ^a   Duan, Xiangfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; NANOWIRE; CARBON;

ALUMINUM; CARBON; COBALT; ELECTRODE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIO WAVE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; NANOFABRICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TELECOMMUNICATION; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CALIBRATION; CARBON; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONICS; NANOWIRES; TEMPERATURE; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 77956939304     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09405     Document Type: Article

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