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In this paper, we report polyfluorene-separated ultra-high purity semiconducting carbon nanotube radio frequency transistors with a self-aligned T-shape gate structure. Because of the ultra-high semiconducting tube purity and self-aligned T-shape gate structure, these transistors showed an excellent direct current and radio frequency performance. In regard to the direct current characteristics, these transistors showed a transconductance up to 40 μS/μm and an excellent current saturation behavior with an output resistance greater than 200 kΩ·μm. In terms of the radio frequency characteristics, an extrinsic maximum oscillation frequency (fmax) of 19 GHz was achieved, which is a record among all kinds of carbon nanotube transistors, and an extrinsic current gain cut-off frequency (fT) of 22 GHz was achieved, which is the highest among transistors based on carbon nanotube networks. Our results take the radio frequency performance of carbon nanotube transistors to a new level and can further accelerate the application of carbon nanotubes for future radio frequency electronics.

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Received: 06 August 2015
Revised: 23 September 2015
Accepted: 05 October 2015
Published: 05 November 2015
Issue date: February 2016

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

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We would like to acknowledge the collaboration of this research with King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) via The Center of Excellence for Green Nanotechnologies (CEGN). We also would like to acknowledge the Center for High Frequency Electronics (CHFE) at UCLA for technical support. We thank Dr. Han Wang at USC and Mr. Minji Zhu at CHFE for help with RF measurements, and we also thank Mr. Jefford J. Humes at NanoIntegris for helpful discussions.

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