{"id":283057,"date":"2010-02-05T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6635"},"modified":"2010-02-05T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T19:36:20","slug":"graphene-transistors-are-really-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/283057","title":{"rendered":"Graphene transistors are really fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Fast like already an order of\u00a0magnitude\u00a0faster than the quickest silicon transistors. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/computing\/24482\/?nlid=2722&amp;a=f\" >IBM prototype graphene transistors run at 100 gigahertz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The transistors were created using processes that are compatible with existing semiconductor manufacturing, and experts say they could be scaled up to produce transistors for high-performance imaging, radar, and communications devices within the next few years, and for zippy computer processors in a decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have previously made graphene transistors using laborious\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/computing\/20424\/?a=f\" >mechanical methods<\/a>, for example by flaking off sheets of graphene from graphite; the fastest transistors made this way have reached speeds of up to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/computing\/21889\/page1\/\" >26 gigahertz<\/a>. Transistors made using similar methods have not equaled these speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Growing transistors on a wafer not only leads to better performance, it&#8217;s also more commercially feasible, says\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/nanoscience\/group.html\" >Phaedon Avouris<\/a>, leader of the nanoscale science and technology group at the IBM Watson Research Center in Ossining, NY where the work was carried out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/files\/36869\/trans_x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speedy switches:<\/strong> These arrays of transistors, printed on a silicon carbide wafer, operate at speeds of 100 gigahertz.<\/p>\n<p>Credit:\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>\/AAAS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6635\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6635&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast like already an order of\u00a0magnitude\u00a0faster than the quickest silicon transistors. The IBM prototype graphene transistors run at 100 gigahertz. From the link: The transistors were created using processes that are compatible with existing semiconductor manufacturing, and experts say they could be scaled up to produce transistors for high-performance imaging, radar, and communications devices within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}