We report on microwave operation of top-gated single car
bon nanotu
be transistors. From transmission measurements in the 0.1-1.6 GHzrange, we deduce device transconductance
gm and gate-nanotu
be capacitance
Cg of micro- and nanometric devices. A large and frequency-independent
gm ~ 20
S is o
bserved on short devices, which meets the
best dc results. The capacitance per unit gate length of 60 aF/
mis typical of top gates on a conventional oxide with
~ 10. This value is a factor of 3-5
below the nanotu
be quantum capacitance which,according to recent simulations, favors high transit frequencies
fT =
gm/2
Cg. For our smallest devices, we find a large
fT ~ 50 GHz with noevidence of saturation in length dependence.