Tuning In to Graphene

Communications of the ACM, October 2013

Peter J. Burke of the University of California, Irvine, conducted some of the foundational work on nanoantennas, developing the first RF circuit model for carbon nanotubes. Based on that early work, his team began to contemplate the possibility of nanoscale antennas, developing the first theoretical models of a carbon nanotube antenna, predicting—correctly—that they would work well at terahertz frequencies.

Burke’s team has since moved on to working with graphene, in part because graphene holds a major advantage over carbon nanotubes: the ability to tune its conducting properties.

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