Dedicated To Bullabbai : Samsung Pushes Graphene One Step Closer

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[b] Samsung pushes graphene one step closer to silicon supremecy[/b]

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/18/samsung-graphene-breakthrough/


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[url="http://www.engadget.com/tag/graphene"]Graphene[/url] has long-held notions of grandeur over its current silicon overlord, but a few practical issues have always kept its takeover bid grounded. Samsung, however, thinks it's cracked at least one of those -- graphene's inability to switch off current. Previous attempts to use graphene as a transistor have involved converting it to a [url="http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/17/new-material-brings-semiconducting-to-the-graphene-party/"]semi-conductor[/url], but this also reduces its electron mobility, negating much of the benefit. [url="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Samsung+Advanced+Institute+of+Technology/"]Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology[/url] has created a graphene-silicon "Schottky barrier" that brings graphene this much-needed current-killing ability, without losing its electron-shuffling potential. The research also explored potential logic device applications based on the same technology. So, does this mean we'll [i]finally[/i] get our flea-sized super [url="http://www.engadget.com/tag/implant"]computer implant[/url]? Maybe, not just yet, but the wheels have certainly been oiled.