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Investigators with the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) say that the carbon compound graphene could be used as an efficient means of boosting the current speed of communications. What the UCB engineers did was essentially learn how to use graphene in an entirely new type of technology that could be used to ... |
9 May 2011
03:43 GMT |
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A collaboration of physics experts in the United States announces that it just finished conducting the first measurements of edge states on well-ordered nanoribbons. These structures, made up of graphene, have been hypothesized since the 1990s, but they were only made a reality recently. Graphene itself was first obt... |
9 May 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Since it was first discovered, less than six years ago, graphene has become one of the most heavily-researched materials in the world. Now, experts at the Cambridge University will conduct a study that will prepare the stage for a €1 billion research into the amazing compound.Scientists have a lot of reasons to ... |
5 May 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Graphene really seems to be setting itself up as the eventual replacement for silicon, especially now that IBM is revealed to have managed the creation of a transistor much faster than any created so far. Graphene is a single layer of carbon arranges in hexagons and has, for quite some time, been tested upon.The goa... |
8 April 2011
07:49 GMT |
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For quite a while now graphene has been the object of many studies as scientists try to better understand this material and use it as a replacement for silicon in future computer chips, and a recent discovery comes to strengthen graphene's role in transistor manufacturing since researchers have just found out th... |
6 April 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Physicists at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have recently demonstrated the existence of a nanoscale cooling effect inside transistors made of graphene. These structures are apparently capable of reducing their own temperatures, the team reveals. These are the first observations of such thermoe... |
4 April 2011
02:48 GMT |
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While a certain compound might, at certain times, be seen as as the needed breakthrough for massive advancements in a certain field, sometimes there are alternatives, and while it isn't readily available, Silicine is this very thing for graphene.Currently, storage relies on platters and NAND chips, while batter... |
28 March 2011
08:05 GMT |
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In a bid to separate space and time from the unified theory in which they were tied together, an American physicist is proposing that the spacetime fabric everyone is talking about is only a mirage, a figment of scientists' imagination, and nothing more. At this point, spacetime is defined as a hypothetical fabr... |
24 March 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Texas Instruments is getting ready to manufacture the next generation of semiconductors as the company is currently perfecting a new method of growing graphene sheets which will eventually enable it to produce faster, smaller and lower power electronics based on carbon instead of silicon.
According to EETimes, Te... |
4 March 2011
04:49 GMT |
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According to experts in chemistry, diamond may in fact have a cousin. They say that T-carbon may be a form of the common chemical that is a bit softer than diamonds, but still harsher than other forms of the stuff, such as for example graphite. Diamond is the most stable and organized form of carbon. It is only produ... |
1 March 2011
04:13 GMT |
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Graphene has, for a while, been the main material that IT companies have been researching in their quest for better storage, but it seems it may no longer be the only one capable of being rendered into atom-thick sheets.Today's storage solutions may look like they are progressing well in terms of storage capaci... |
4 February 2011
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A group of investigators from the United Kingdom announce that they were able to use one of the newest materials in the world to develop a transistor that features an on/off switching ratio 1,000 times higher than any other currently available on the market.The team, based at the University of Southampton, used the 2... |
31 January 2011
19:31 GMT |
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French researchers with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) propose in a new article that using molybdenite instead of silicon or graphene could allow for the creation of smaller, cheaper, more energy-efficient electronic chips, and other electronic devices. The proposal is detail... |
31 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Introduced as a major breakthrough in chip manufacturing, graphene doesn't seem to have all that much going for it lately, as after IBM said that the material wouldn't replace silicon in future transistors, another hurdle comes its way, researchers just discovering that molybdenite is far better suited for ... |
31 January 2011
09:07 GMT |
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Boasted as one of the greatest innovations in processors manufacturing, graphene isn't yet ready to take the place of silicon in the CPU fabrication process, an IBM researcher revealing that such a transistor can't actually be completely switched off, raising energy efficiency and gate signalling problems.W... |
24 January 2011
11:04 GMT |
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Physicists and materials scientist around the world are currently working on developing methods of including graphene inside next-generation electronics without causing the material to lose its trademark physical and chemical properties. The effort is bound to be very challenging, experts say. The reasons why so many... |
21 January 2011
08:43 GMT |
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An international collaboration of experts has demonstrated that photons, the basic particles that make up light, can be used in a controlled manner for changing the electrical properties of graphene. This is one of the most interesting and studied new materials today. It was discovered only half a decade ago, but the... |
11 January 2011
03:06 GMT |
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The solar power industry is currently reliant on organic materials such as indium-tin-oxide (ITO) for producing electrodes in solar cells. But some of these materials are expensive and difficult to come by. A group of researchers believes it may have just found a solution to this problem. When producing solar cells, ... |
6 January 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Ultracapacitors are energy-storing devices that can both absorb and release electricity very fast. However, they can only store very little energy inside. A group of American researchers may have fixed this issue, with a little help from a heavily-researched carbon compound.The science team, based at Nanotek Instrume... |
8 December 2010
18:01 GMT |
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In an accomplishment that might herald the future of electronics, researchers at the Cornell University in the United States were able to create large arrays of nanoscale resonators using the carbon compound graphene, currently one of the most researched materials in the world. The work was prompted by the fact that ... |
1 December 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Everyone is excited about graphene because it is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice, but most of all, it's one of the thinnest and strongest materials that were ever produced.The term graphene first appeared in 1987, when it was used for describing single sheets ... |
12 November 2010
09:40 GMT |
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Physicists from the Rice University managed to develop a new method for producing the two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms known as graphene, which involves the use of sugar and related, carbon-based molecules. The graphene produced in this manner is nearly perfect. This carbon compound is currently being touted as ... |
11 November 2010
10:57 GMT |
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The same group of physicists that first obtained the carbon compound graphene nearly 6 years ago announces the development of a new derivative of the material. Called fluorographene, the compound does not conduct electricity at all. Graphene is known for many of its peculiar physical and chemical properties, and one ... |
4 November 2010
09:00 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new discovery, a team of investigators managed to develop a new technique for producing graphene-based transistors and nanoelectronics, which relies on the use of simple water for tuning the material's band gap.Developing methods of doing this is of paramount importance for the electronics in... |
26 October 2010
10:26 GMT |
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In a research paper appearing in the journal arXiv, a team of physicists details how mass can be created inside the two-dimensional carbon compound known as graphene. This material has a peculiar range of chemical and physical properties, which make it the next big thing in the electronics industry. The range of pote... |
21 October 2010
11:01 GMT |
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Apparently, researchers' ongoing struggle for turning graphene into a usable technology has paid off, to some extent, not that physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have learned how to polarize electrons to give them the “spin” directional orientation.Apparently, researchers have co... |
18 October 2010
07:51 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United States announces that new data have been collected on how a phenomenon known as noise develops in the carbon compound graphene. The material, which is heralded as one of the most significant discoveries of the 21st century, will soon be used on a wide scale in numerous electro... |
16 October 2010
03:46 GMT |
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Investigators have recently discovered that producing graphene-based circuits at a large scale has the potential to revolutionize the electronics industry, augmenting its capabilities beyond what is currently possible with silicon-based materials. If the new carbon compound starts being used on a large scale, it coul... |
14 October 2010
02:27 GMT |
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With the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics going to graphene research, it stands to reason that this material will start making the object of many studies. But a collaboration of researchers is already ahead of the pack, having started a large-scale investigation into the material earlier this year. The group's main m... |
13 October 2010
03:45 GMT |
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In a festivity held on October 5 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, the recipients of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced. Expert physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both from the University of Manchester, in England, were awarded the prestigious award for developing a low-... |
5 October 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Scientists have finally developed a method that allows them to integrate graphene-based transistors into existing electronic devices, such as cell phones, radios, computers, and laptops.Adding the innovative, one-atom-thick carbon compound holds great promise for the industry, which may develop considerably as a resu... |
3 September 2010
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A collaboration of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Harvard University believes that the single-atom-thick material known as graphene could be used to improve the speed of existing genome-sequencing techniques. The researchers say that sequencing is becoming an increasingly comm... |
19 August 2010
11:04 GMT |
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Discovering all there is to know about graphene is one of the most important goal in physics and chemistry today. The amazing properties this material has make it a suitable choice for replacing silicon in electronic devices, but experts are not yet familiar with all of its properties. One of the challenges in the fi... |
7 August 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Since 2005, when experts at the University of Manchester discovered the carbon compound known as graphene, the international scientific community has been convinced that it found the replacement material for silicon. But experts are well aware that they need to understand graphene thoroughly before using it in mass, ... |
4 August 2010
05:01 GMT |
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An international team of scientists has recently managed to achieve an incredible goal in graphene research. They were able to produce pseudo-magnetic fields several times stronger than the strongest magnetic fields ever obtained in the lab. All of this was possible through applying the correct type of pressure and s... |
30 July 2010
03:55 GMT |
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As most of you already know, the single-atom-thick carbon compound called graphene is one of the most promising materials being researched today. Discovered just five years ago, the hexagonal material has extraordinary chemical and physical properties, which made researchers say that it will one day replace silicon i... |
30 July 2010
02:53 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Rice University announces the development of a new method for producing bulk amounts graphene oxide (GO). The approach can also be used to break up large quantities of the compound, which means that the team essentially developed a new means of ensuring a steady supply of the stuff. ... |
23 July 2010
07:02 GMT |
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No doubt consumers are mostly concerned with the latest and greatest development on the CPU, graphics, memory and storage fronts. As such, it’s likely they aren't exactly up to speed with all the research projects meant to enable next-generation technologies. Nevertheless, there are certain projects deserv... |
22 June 2010
05:18 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Brown University, led by expert Vivek Shenoy, a professor of engineering, announces the development of a new method for eliminating defects from graphene. In order for scientists and the electronics industry to take advantage of the amazing physical and chemical properties the single-... |
7 June 2010
05:47 GMT |
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A group of investigators announces the development of a new method of producing graphene. The material is hailed as the next big thing in the electronics industry, due to its remarkable physical and chemical properties. But producing the stuff with the maximum level of purity and in large amounts has thus far proven ... |
31 May 2010
04:45 GMT |
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Everyone knows that graphene is the one-atom-thick carbon compound that holds the promise to innovate the world of the electronics industry. But very few people know that the insulating equivalent of this material, called graphane, is also right up there in terms of preferences, at least from the scientific community... |
26 May 2010
14:01 GMT |
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A group of scientists has recently managed to obtain groundbreaking new data on the electronic structure of graphene. The material is a single-atom-thick carbon compound, which exhibits very peculiar physical and chemical properties. Discovered only 5 years ago at the University of Manchester, in the UK, graphene has... |
21 May 2010
06:45 GMT |
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When music fans talk about “hot sounds,” they have an entirely different thing in mind than physicists. The latter group is thinking about a host of acoustic phenomena that are effective in removing heat from various electronic devices. Now, experts at the Rice University have identified a process in whic... |
29 April 2010
09:24 GMT |
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Since it was first discovered in 2004, the two-dimensional carbon compound graphene has been hailed as one of the most promising materials to have hit the market in years. Originally derived from 3D graphite, the material exhibits superior electron mobility, mechanical strength and thermal conductivity, which are all... |
9 April 2010
16:01 GMT |
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A group of physicists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has recently announced the results of a new investigation, whose goal was to assess the interactions that appear between graphene and metal. The reason why such work is being conducted is because the new material ... |
2 April 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Scientists based at the University of South Florida (USF) have recently developed a new approach to handling the word “defect.” Generally, most people think about a flaw that needs fixing when they hear this word, but the team says that this should not necessarily be the case. In their research, they arti... |
31 March 2010
02:32 GMT |
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On Monday, during a meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Portland, Oregon, researchers presented the foundations of a new imaging method that could allow for observing the smallest microorganisms at impressive resolution. The team that made the findings said that it may even become possible for experts t... |
19 March 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Electric vehicles are at this point our only option, if we are to avert the effects of climate change and global warming. Regular cars produce too much greenhouse gas emissions, and they need to be eliminated soon. But replacing them is not very easy because of the high costs and low driving ranges associated with ba... |
18 March 2010
07:33 GMT |
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By combining the atom-thick carbon compound graphene with very small sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), researchers at the Rice University managed to obtain a new type of structure that is bound to advance materials science considerably. The investigators produced a two-dimensional quilt, which essentially ove... |
2 March 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Graphene, a carbon compound that was discovered only 6 years ago, is one of the materials that promise to innovate science, creating better radios, computers, electronics and phones, in addition to revolutionizing materials science. But the atom-thick, semi-metallic graphene suffers from a major drawback, and namely ... |
26 February 2010
11:05 GMT |
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