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#1 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 10:34 PM

a carbon nano-tube radio. this radio is as big as a chunk of DNA and
they tuned in the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations) and Eric Clapton
(Layla) with it. has a antenna, resonant tuner, and demodulator. all
in one molecule. i think it was some physics prof at Berkeley.

but it's very noisy.

r b-j

#2 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 10:55 PM

robert bristow-johnson wrote:

> a carbon nano-tube radio. this radio is as big as a chunk of DNA and
> they tuned in the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations) and Eric Clapton
> (Layla) with it. has a antenna, resonant tuner, and demodulator. all
> in one molecule. i think it was some physics prof at Berkeley.
>
> but it's very noisy.
>
> r b-j
>
Indeed, this item showed up in rec.radio.shortwave yesterday and referenced
a 'livescience.com' article which was very short on specifics. A Google
search on <carbon nanotube radio alex berkeley> yesterday produced only a
modest number of hits linking to just that article -- it sure is a different
story today (about 75,800 hits to many more sources). Does anyone have
access to any journal papers on this effort?

Regards,

Michael

#3 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 10:59 PM

msg wrote:

> robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>
>> a carbon nano-tube radio. this radio is as big as a chunk of DNA and
>> they tuned in the Beach Boys (Good Vibrations) and Eric Clapton
>> (Layla) with it. has a antenna, resonant tuner, and demodulator. all
>> in one molecule. i think it was some physics prof at Berkeley.
>>
>> but it's very noisy.
>>
>> r b-j
>>

A quick read with some specifics is here:

http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=113058512

Regards,

Michael

#4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 12:56 AM

robert bristow-johnson <rbj@audioimagination.com> writes:
> [...]
> but it's very noisy.

Just average a few molecules...
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#5 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 01:01 AM

On Nov 3, 7:56 pm, Randy Yates <ya...@ieee.org> wrote:
> robert bristow-johnson <r...@audioimagination.com> writes:
> > [...]
> > but it's very noisy.
>
> Just average a few molecules...

how're you gonna connect them up?

r b-j

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