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[Discuss-gnuradio] The RF front-end just got much smaller.


From: L. Van Warren
Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] The RF front-end just got much smaller.
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 10:45:09 -0500

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~argon/nanoradio/radio.html

Watch the movies and imagine an array of nanotube front-ends feeding a SDR. Talk about tiny.

Quoting:

"We constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. Moreover, the antenna and tuner are implemented in a radically different manner than traditional radios, receiving signals via high frequency mechanical vibrations of the nanotube rather than through traditional electrical means. We have already used the nanotube radio to receive and play music from FM radio transmissions such as Layla by Eric Clapton (Derek and the Dominos) and the Beach Boy's Good Vibrations. The nanotube radio's extremely small size could enable radical new applications such as radio controlled devices small enough to exist in the human bloodstream, or simply smaller, cheaper, and more efficient wireless devices such as cellular phones."

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van
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