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Researchers develop world's first functioning graphene semiconductor | Breakthrough could eventually lead to terahertz processors


Earlier this month, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta published a paper in Nature. The study discusses producing epigraphene from silicon carbide (SiC). Semiconducting...

According to Georgia Tech Regents Professor of Physics Walt de Heer, electrons can move 10 times faster than traditional silicon-based transistors. "Our research is distinct from these other approaches because we have produced large areas of semiconducting SEC on defect-free, atomically flat SiC terraces," de Heer said. While science has successfully produced functioning, highly mobile semiconducting epitaxial graphene, SEC processors in quantum or regular computers are still a distant vision.

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