gambitt
04-18-2008, 11:30 AM
From the BBC
Researchers have managed to build a transistor that significantly smaller than the silicon based ones commonly used today. The problem is that they're still trying to figure out how to make sheets of it so they can build chips out of graphene. Graphene is basically a single sheet of graphite, like the stuff in your common everyday pencil. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7352464.stm)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/Graphene_xyz.jpg/340px-Graphene_xyz.jpg
Image from wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene)
The possibilities are.... staggering.
Researchers have managed to build a transistor that significantly smaller than the silicon based ones commonly used today. The problem is that they're still trying to figure out how to make sheets of it so they can build chips out of graphene. Graphene is basically a single sheet of graphite, like the stuff in your common everyday pencil. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7352464.stm)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/26/Graphene_xyz.jpg/340px-Graphene_xyz.jpg
Image from wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene)
The possibilities are.... staggering.