Flexible and transparent all-graphene circuits for quaternary digital modulations.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
In modern communication systems, modulation is a key function that embeds the baseband signal (information) into a carrier wave so that it can be successfully broadcasted through a medium such as air or cables. Here we report a flexible all-graphene modulator circuit with the capability of encoding a carrier signal with quaternary digital information. By exploiting the ambipolarity and the nonlinearity in a graphene transistor, we demonstrate two types of quaternary modulation schemes: quaternary amplitude-shift keying and quadrature phase-shift keying. Remarkably, both modulation schemes can be realized with just 1 and 2 all-graphene transistors, respectively, representing a drastic reduction in circuit complexity when compared with conventional modulators. In addition, the circuit is not only flexible but also highly transparent (~95% transmittance) owing to its all-graphene design with every component (channel, interconnects, load resistor and source/drain/gate electrodes) fabricated from graphene films.