A team of engineers at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. has developed an automated manufacturing process for graphene-based radio frequency transistors. Until now, RF transistors made from graphene were one-off products of a laborious process. The IBM team came up with a vapor-deposition method that observers say is compatible with common chipmaking … [Read more...]
Self-Cooling Observed in Graphene Electronics
University of Illinois researchers found that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces their temperature. Led by mechanical science and engineering professor William King and electrical and computer engineering professor Eric Pop, the team will publish its findings in the April 3 advance online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The Illinois … [Read more...]
Nobel Prize Puts Graphene in Spotlight
Two Russian expatriates working in Britain have been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of graphene, a two-dimensional layer of carbon molecules whose unexpected properties promise to revolutionize the electronics industry, the production of lightweight materials and a host of other applications. Among potential applications cited by the Swedish Nobel … [Read more...]
