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First Graphene Transistor
An anonymous reader writes "UK researchers are announcing the first ever workable transistor made of graphene — that's one layer of carbon atoms. It's thinner and smaller than a silicon transistor can ever be, and it works at room temperature. When silicon electronics are dead, this is what many speculate is going to take over. There's slight controversy as they decided to announce their results via a review article, rather than wait for their (submitted) peer review paper to come out."
Thank you and goodnight! :)
Wow, silicon will never match that! Now I don't have to work in this darn freon chamber all day.
A use for Folgers.
oh, wait; GRAPHene... oops.
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
need to be able to be mass-produced, scalable and just as reliable as alternatives [silicon, quantum computers etc.]
John Connor, is that you? I gotta tell you, when you come from, quantum computers might be mass-produced, scalable and reliable, but today they aren't just yet...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Duke Nuke'em Forever is pure research... yeeeaahh; that's the ticket.
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
[Graphene....]nanometer-scale silicon lasers... Our current tech will look like molasses when these are coupled.
Just wait till you see what happens when they start adding the sharks...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I think what you meant to say was "I for one welcome our new carbon transistor overloards". I don't know what makes you dumber, the fact that you tried recycling that tired joke or that you couldn't even get the simple equation for the joke right.
In Soviet Russia, tired joke recycles YOU!
.. although it's going to take an awful large layer of 1-atom thick carbon to remove all that CO2 from the atmosphere.