[Amps] A One Tube Radio

[Pat Barthelow]

Can you  imagine the tinglies you would feel the first time,  as the Principal Investigator,  (Dr Zettl) and the grad student who built it.   It was originally only a demodulator, until Dr Zettl, realized it might perform all functions, tuning, amplification, and demodulation, and quickly set up a test in the lab to check his theory.  Play Eric Clapton's   "Layla"  using a small signal generator across the lab table,  and  listen in the headphones...There are You tube recordings of the actual Nanotube radio audio delivery.  Mind Blowing...."Layla" from a nanotube.   

I dont know if it is possible, but I am trying to get someone from that team to present their Nanotube radio at "Radiofest 2008" in Monterey, Feb 23, 24.

BTW, what they do at the UC Berkeley Nanotechnology Labs, is so amazing that they have HUGE funding from DOD for further research.  They invented the moniker, "Smart Dust", Google it.

All the best,
Pat Barthelow
aa6eg at hotmail.com
Jamesburg Moonbounce Team


> From: wlfuqu00 at uky.edu
> To: wc6w_amps at yahoo.com; amps at contesting.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:38:09 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Amps] A One Tube Radio
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> This may be the right place to discuss this radio since it takes a very large signal for it to work. You will need an amplifier
> to get the field strength needed.  Just read the paper. Also it requires a several hundred volt very stable adjustable power supply
> to make it work.  Not included in the nano radio. The high voltage tunes it and provides the intense field needed at the tip of the
> nanotube to detect the vibrations due to radio waves interacting with the nanotube. There are going to be applications but not as
> a radio receiver. Perhaps it can be used as a tuneable filter or a set of nanotubes could be made to make a real time spectrum analyzer.
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> 73
> Bill wa4lav
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> http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/10/31_NanoRadio.shtml
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> 73 & Good morning,
>   Marv WC6W
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