World's Smallest FM Radio Transmitter Created With Graphene 60
minty3 writes "The team used graphene's mechanical 'stretchability' in order to create a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) – an electronic component that can generate an FM signal. The VCO was used to send and receive audio signals of 100 megahertz. The team used pure tones and more complex music signals to tune the VCO's output and found that both kinds of signals could be 'faithfully reproduced' by an ordinary radio receiver."
100 Mhz audio? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:*world's smallest VCO (Score:3, Insightful)
Is the size of the VCO a big deal in manufacturing of any radio transmitter?
Only for people interested in listening in on other people without their knowledge. I can't imagine anyone wanting to do that, though. Besides, you'd need a barely visible microphone [phys.org] to make it useful.
Re:*world's smallest VCO (Score:4, Insightful)