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Carbon nanotube network film-based ring oscillators with sub 10-ns propagation time and their applications in radio-frequency signal transmission

Yingjun Yang§, Li Ding§, Hengjia Chen, Jie Han, Zhiyong Zhang( ), Lian-Mao Peng( )
Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Department of ElectronicsPeking UniversityBeijing100871China

§ Yingjun Yang and Li Ding contributed equally to this work.

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We have fabricated top-gated ambipolar field-effect transistors (FETs) based on solution-derived carbon nanotube (CNT) network films, and then constructed inverters and ring oscillators (ROs) that can work under supply voltages as low as 0.2 V owing to the high uniformity of the devices. Significant improvements were achieved in the performance of these CNT-based ambipolar FETs and CMOS-like circuits by scaling down the gate length of the CNT FETs and optimizing the device structure and RO layout. In particular, the optimized five-stage RO is shown to present a record high oscillation frequency of up to 17.4 MHz with a propagation time of 5.6 ns at a 12-V working voltage. The CNT film-based ROs were used as carrier-wave generators in radio-frequency systems to demonstrate a complete signal transmission process. These results suggest that CNT thin film-based FETs and integrated circuits may soon find their way to radio-frequency applications with a frequency band of 13.56 MHz.

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carbon nanotubenanoelectronicsfield-effect transistorsradio-frequencyring oscillator

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Nano Research
Volume 11 Issue 1,
January 2018
Pages 300-310
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-017-1632-1
Cite this article:
Yang Y, Ding L, Chen H, et al. Carbon nanotube network film-based ring oscillators with sub 10-ns propagation time and their applications in radio-frequency signal transmission. Nano Research, 2018, 11(1): 300-310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1632-1

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Received: 06 February 2017
Revised: 14 March 2017
Accepted: 16 April 2017
Published: 07 July 2017
© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2017
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