Ultimate RF performance potential of carbon electronics

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 59, Issue 10 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2739-2750

  Koswatta, S O ^a   Valdes Garcia, A ^a   Steiner, M B ^a   Lin, Yu Ming ^a   Avouris, P ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT); Field effect transistor (FET); Graphene; RF

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAY; CARBON NANOTUBES (CNT); EXTERNAL PARASITICS; GRAPHENE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HIGH FREQUENCY PERFORMANCE; RF; SEMICONDUCTING TUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; GRAPHENE; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84856241232     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2011.2150241     Document Type: Article

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