Gigahertz flexible graphene transistors for microwave integrated circuits

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 7663-7670

  Yeh, Chao Hui ^a   Lain, Yi Wei ^a   Chiu, Yu Chiao ^a   Liao, Chen Hung ^a   Moyano, David Ricardo ^a   Hsu, Shawn S H ^a   Chiu, Po Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

flexible electronics; frequency mixer; graphene; low noise amplifier; radio frequency transistor

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO WAVES; TIMING CIRCUITS;

FREQUENCY MIXERS; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; MAXIMUM OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; MICROWAVE TRANSISTORS; OPERATION FREQUENCY; PARASITIC RESISTANCES; RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSISTORS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RECEIVERS;

RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 84906674327     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5036087     Document Type: Article

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