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Samsung Claims Breakthrough In Graphene Chip Design

Posted by timothy on from the wopr-will-run-much-faster-after-the-upgrade dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "Graphene, a carbon-based crystalline lattice that is extremely strong, lightweight, and an excellent conductor of electricity and heat, is coveted as a potential base for semiconductor chip design, and Samsung, working with the Sungkyungkwan University School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, has claimed a big jump towards that goal. With IBM also making progress in this realm, the days of silicon could actually be numbered."

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  1. Re:What a differnec e a couple of year can make. by geekoid · · Score: 3, Informative

    SIgh. The article you link, from 2011, says "yet"
    Its all about creating a band gap, with with silcon doping*.
    However, their is research in this area.

    http://www-als.lbl.gov/index.p...

    *yeah yeah, but people get the idea.

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