Assessment of high-frequency performance limits of graphene field-effect transistors

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 571-579

  Chauhan, Jyotsna ^a   Guo, Jing ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube (CNT); Field effect transistor (FET); intrinsic cut off frequency; radio frequency (RF); transconductance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957456506     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0113-1     Document Type: Article

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