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'Bizarre' Nanobubbles Found In Strained Graphene

Posted by timothy on from the put-them-in-very-small-asylums dept.

schliz writes "Physicists have observed 'bizarre' behaviour in graphene electrons that they say could make the material even more suitable to replace silicon in future electronic devices. When strained in a particular manner, nanobubbles formed on a sheet of graphene, within which electrons came to occupy particular, quantum energy levels rather than the usual, continuous range of energies in unstrained graphene. By controlling electrons' energy levels, researchers could control how easily they moved through graphene — in effect, controlling their conductivity, optical, or microwave properties."

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  1. Re:There are no limits with OSS by dwinks616 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Seriously? I like linux and all, but you are just a fucking idiot if you think it can somehow overcome the limits of not being able to make components smaller than an atom (or two or three).

  2. Re:There are no limits with OSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And for that matter, most research facilities, at least in physics, DO use mostly open source software. Yes, the people on the bureaucratic/management side may use Windows/MS Office, but the people actually doing the science tend to rely on mostly open source software (developed by themselves or other research groups) running on Linux. And the programs that aren't strictly full open source still usually run under Linux.

    Also, go back and take some science classes. Fundamental physics doesn't care about OSS or proprietary. There's still some hard physical limits you run into at small scales thanks to quantum mechanics.