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Carbon electronics overtakes silicon technology
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah  
A potential breakthrough in understanding and applying graphene technology could mean that the traditional silicon chip becomes history.  
The electronics industry has pushed the capabilities of silicon -- the material at the heart of all computer chips to its limit and one intriguing replacement has been carbon, said Stephen Chou, professor of electrical engineering at Princeton.  However, switching from silicon to carbon has not been possible due to a number of restrictions.
To overcome these restrictions the team have developed a novel methodology and demonstrated it by making high-performance working graphene transistors.
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Stuey () Newbie | 2008-01-01 14:41:13
interesting concept - so they've proved the point - its now a question of if the theory can be put into practical applications - so will Silicon Valley need to be renamed Carbon valley ?
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Fraser () Newbie | 2008-01-01 19:43:02
anyone intersted in finding out a bit more technical data on graphene can visit this site
http://onnes.ph.man.ac.uk/nano/Publications/Naturemat_2007Review.pdf
1.33MB so the download could be a bit slow - but plenty of in depth technical stuff - enjoy
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Chavez () Newbie | 2008-01-01 20:04:17
it has benn well known for years that isolated graphine crystals have exceptional electronic qualities and that there was great potential to leverage this ability - the time scale was seen as many years before it could be adapted to commercial applications - so if these guys are as good as their word - or as the reported word - then a shake up could be just around the corner - however i've seen these miracle breakthroughs before - that never quite made it - maybe this time !
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Janine () Newbie | 2008-01-01 20:23:16
A lot of these projects are pure research and look good in the lab – but don’t make it to the manufacturing stage – maybe this could be different
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Rose () Newbie | 2008-01-01 20:23:58
reporters are always looking for a storey and they need to make it sound good – so a bit of journalistic licence often comes into play – particularly around this time of the year – when it’s quiet and good stuff is thin on the ground
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Janine () Newbie | 2008-01-02 03:26:06
graphene suddenly pops up again but for a different reason - I think
http://www.dailytech.com/ New+Material+Promises+to+Save+LCD+Solar+Power+Indu stry/article10143.htm
not my area of expertise, but interesting nevertheless - the Germans need to get together with the guys at Princeton - could be some common ground ? maybe ?
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