Graphene is a sheet of bonded carbon atoms with a thickness of one atom. It has been made into faster, low power transistors, and can take the heat in future ultra fast microprocessors. Semiconductor industries hope to make computers faster by devloping microprocessors that uses graphene transistors because graphene conducts electrons better than silicon. Measured in gigahertz, silicon processors perform a certain number of operations per second without over heating. Graphene, measured in terahertz (a factor of thousand over gigahertz) has no resistance allowing heat to dissipate quickly. Graphene has been tested and confirmed the strongest material ever. Besides graphene making faster computers, it can be useful in communciation and imaging technology with ultra fast transistors.
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I was unaware that we had almost reached the physical limits of silicone.
ReplyDeleteThis will be interesting to watch as it unfolds.
I imagine graphene is much cheaper than silicone as well.