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Silicene Discovered: Single-layer Silicon That Could Beat Graphene To Market
MrSeb writes "Numerous research groups around the world are reporting that they have created silicene, a one-atom-thick hexagonal mesh of silicon atoms — the silicon equivalent of graphene. You will have heard a lot about graphene, especially with regard to its truly wondrous electrical properties, but it has one rather major problem: It doesn't have a bandgap, which makes it very hard to integrate into existing semiconductor processes. Silicene, on the other hand, is theorized to have excellent electrical properties, while still being compatible with silicon-based electronics (abstract). For now, silicene has only been observed (with a scanning tunneling electron microscope), but the next step is to grow a silicene film on an insulating substrate so that its properties can be properly investigated."
I'm still waiting on the atom-thick holographic film, Holocene(tm).
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
And the flexible version.... Pliocene
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Remember, "theorized to have" probably means something more like "we got some motherfuckin' mathematical models which say that this shit got all kindsa properties like".
I'm waiting for the censored version of the Oxygen-Boron layer: OBscene.
"silicon â" a material which will probably reach its physical limits in the next 5-10 years" Haven't they been saying that since 1980?
Yes -- and therefore silicon has no physical limits and Moore's Law will continue forever.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
I thought saline replaced it -- wait -- what were you talking about again?