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Jul 11 2008 9:28AM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
integrated circuits, nantotechnology, Technology
Overheard: Back to the future with graphene
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
integrated circuits, nantotechnology, Technology
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Companies like Intel have a roadmap to reduce the size of circuits on the silicon wafer, down to about 10 nanometres – 10,000 times smaller than the width of a single human hair.
Darren Waters, Nano switch hints at future chips |
The transistor, essentially an on/off switch, has been made using graphene, a two-dimensional material first discovered only four years ago.
Graphene is a single layer of graphite, which is found in the humble pencil.
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