SHF: Small: Collaborative Research: Graphene Circuits for Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF Applications

石墨烯晶体管被广泛认为是高频应用中模拟、混合信号和射频系统的激动人心的候选者。该合作研究项目旨在设计、开发和演示用于射频和模拟混合信号系统的单片集成石墨烯电路。它将增加基于双极石墨烯场效应管的电路设计原理的核心知识，重点是放大器、鉴相器和比较器-这三个实用射频应用的候选解决方案很有前途。通过密切协调的理论、计算和实验工作，将证明这种石墨烯电路不仅可以降低电子电路的复杂性，而且比使用传统半导体材料实现的最先进的电路实现更大的带宽、更高的频率和更低的功耗。该项目的更广泛的影响包括将早期的石墨烯晶体管科学转化为射频应用的实际解决方案所需的技术进步。本项目将设计和演示的石墨烯电路可用于消费电子和通信设备，如智能手机，以及雷达和无线传感器。石墨烯独特的材料特性与利用这些特性的创新电路设计相结合，有望大幅提高射频设备的性能，并降低其重量和功耗。该项目的另一个具有广泛技术影响的核心成果将是一个综合试验台和基于网络的资源，以促进石墨烯电子的研究。通过与广泛的学术、行业和政府研究人员的合作，这一合作努力将加强设备、电路和射频社区之间的联系，并加快向石墨烯电子产品大规模集成和应用所必需的关键设计参数的融合。该项目计划将有助于在两所参与的大学培养技术学科的本科生和研究生。该项目将通过早期参与实际相关的计算和实验研究，对教育在科学和工程领域代表性不足的学生产生积极影响。

Graphene transistors are widely considered exciting candidates for analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency systems in high-frequency applications. This collaborative research project is aimed at the design, development, and demonstration of monolithically integrated graphene circuits for radio frequency and analog mixed-signal systems. It will add to the core knowledge of the principles of circuit design based on ambipolar graphene field-effect transistors, with an emphasis on amplifiers, phase detectors, and comparators - three promising candidate solutions for practical radio frequency applications. Through closely coordinated theoretical, computational, and experimental efforts, it will be demonstrated that such graphene circuits can not only reduce the complexity of the electronic circuits, but also realize larger bandwidth, higher frequency, and lower power consumption than state-of-the-art circuits implemented with conventional semiconductor materials.The broader impact of this project includes technical advances required to harness the early science of graphene transistors into practical solutions for radio frequency applications. The graphene circuits to be designed and demonstrated in this project can be used in consumer electronics and communication gadgets such as smart-phones as well as in radars and wireless sensors. The unique material properties of graphene combined with the innovative circuit designs that exploit these properties are expected to lead to major increase in the performance of the radio frequency devices as well as a reduction in their weight and power consumption. Another core outcome of this project with broad technological impact will be an integrated test-bed and web-based resources to facilitate research in graphene electronics. Through collaborations with a broad range of academic, industry, and government investigators, this collaborative effort will strengthen ties between the device, circuit, and radio frequency communities, and accelerate convergence to key design parameters essential for the large scale integration and application of graphene electronics. The project plan will help in educating undergraduate and graduate students in technical disciplines in both participating universities. The project will produce a positive impact on educating students underrepresented in science and engineering via their early involvement in the practically relevant computational and experimental research.