Replacing Copper With Pencil Graphite 122
Late-Eight writes "A key discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics. Researchers believe graphene's extremely efficient conductive properties can be exploited for use in nanoelectronics. Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, eluded scientists for years but was finally made in the laboratory in 2004 with the help of everyday, store-bought transparent tape. The current research, which shows a way to control the conductivity of graphene, is an important first step towards mass producing metallic graphene that could one day replace copper as the primary interconnect material on nearly all computer chips." Researchers are now hot to pursue graphene for this purpose over the previous favorite candidate, buckytubes (which are just rolled-up graphene). Farther down the road, semiconducting graphene might take over from silicon at the heart of logic chips.
Keep Erasers Away (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Keep Erasers Away (Score:5, Funny)
More wishful thinking? (Score:2, Funny)
I hope graphene is expensive... (Score:5, Funny)
but (Score:5, Funny)
Re:but (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Keep Erasers Away (Score:5, Funny)
I'll have to scan you-tube over the next few days for clips.
Re:Keep Erasers Away (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads
Re:Keep Erasers Away (Score:1, Funny)
http://www.efukt.com/view.php?id=196 [efukt.com] (remove white spaces if any)
Not made it a clicky for obvious reasons, but this is kinda like putting a pencil in a socket, except probably a bit more painful.
Re:There are even more advantages (Score:3, Funny)
All we need now is a transistor made of soot and we can finally have the elusive all-carbon computer!
Re:I hope graphene is expensive... (Score:3, Funny)