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First Graphene Transistor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the cool-under-pressure dept.

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."

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  1. That's one slick transistor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you and goodnight! :)

  2. Works at room temperature? by timeOday · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, silicon will never match that! Now I don't have to work in this darn freon chamber all day.

  3. Re:practical? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    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
  4. Re:overlord by Experiment+626 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!