Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo1, Armin Jafari1, Nirmana Perera1

  • 1Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), Institute of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Nature
|March 28, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らは,超高速信号交換のための新しいナノスケールプラズマ (ナノプラズマ) 電子スイッチを開発しました. このナノプラズマ装置は ピコ秒のスイッチング速度を達成し, 高電位テラヘルツ信号生成のための従来のトランジスタを大幅に上回ります.

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