• 文献标题:   High quality factor graphene varactors for wireless sensing applications
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   KOESTER SJ
  • 作者关键词:   dielectric material, graphene, inductor, qfactor, varactor, wireless sensor network
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0003-6951
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Minnesota Twin Cities
  • 被引频次:   22
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.3651334
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

A graphene wireless sensor concept is described. By utilizing thin gate dielectrics, the capacitance in a metal-insulator-graphene structure varies with charge concentration through the quantum capacitance effect. Simulations using realistic structural and transport parameters predict quality factors, Q, >60 at 1 GHz. When placed in series with an ideal inductor, a resonant frequency tuning ratio of 25% (54%) is predicted for sense charge densities ranging from 0.32 to 1.6 mu C/cm(2) at an equivalent oxide thickness of 2.0 nm (0.5 nm). The resonant frequency has a temperature sensitivity, df/dT, less than 0.025%/K for sense charge densities >0.32 mu C/cm(2). (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3651334]