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Re:Carbon Nanotubes Finally Outperform Silicon in Transistors by GregBuchholz on Friday October 14, 2016 @02:55PM (#12710293)
>I wonder how you even test a 1THz amplifier.

Most likely using a mixer or some other non-linearity to down convert into the frequency range of your spectrum analyzer.

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Re:Carbon Nanotubes Finally Outperform Silicon in Transistors by raverbashing on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:15PM (#12710404)
And how do you get the 1THz signal in the 1st place? Maybe upconvert as well?
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