Gigahertz integrated graphene ring oscillators

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5588-5594

  Guerriero, Erica ^a   Polloni, Laura ^a,b   Bianchi, Massimiliano ^a   Behnam, Ashkan ^c   Carrion, Enrique ^c   Rizzi, Laura Giorgia ^a   Pop, Eric ^c,d   Sordan, Roman ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

analog electronics; digital electronics; graphene; integrated circuit; logic gates; oscillator; voltage gain

Indexed keywords

ANALOG ELECTRONICS; DIGITAL ELECTRONICS; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS; OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; OUTPUT VOLTAGE SWINGS; PARASITIC CAPACITANCE; VOLTAGE GAIN;

CAPACITANCE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOGIC GATES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84879653855     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401933v     Document Type: Article

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