High-Rate RF Nanoreceivers with CNT Antennas

We introduce RF nanoreceivers based on carbon nanotube (CNT) antennas. CNT-based nanoreceivers have been shown to operate in tens to hundreds of MHz range both in theory and practice. We show that a low cost combination of these receivers lead to linear increase in achieved data rate via ONOFF Keying (OOK). Due to extremely small scale of the CNTs, many hundreds of thousands of these receivers can be packed into very small areas to achieve rates comparable to the commercially available wireless receivers. We show that, with a 1mm forest of CNT antennas, separated by 100nm, our nanoreceiver achieves a rate of 1Mbps at an SNR of 6dB at a bit error rate of 10. Hence, a significant spatial miniaturization is achieved by our nanoreceiver compared to a classical RF receiver without a loss in the achievable rate.