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CARBON NANOTUBE RADIOCNT BASED AM DEMODULATOR

C. Rutherglen, P.J. Burke"Carbon Nanotube Radio"Nano Letters, 7(11), 3296-3299 (2007)

Funding: ARO, ONR

NanotubeDiameter= 1.5 nm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfUdoIMOw5A

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"Quantitative theory of nanowire and nanotube antenna performance"IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 5(4), 314-334 (2006).