{"id":153395,"date":"2022-12-22T03:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/team-develops-graphene-based-nanoelectronics-platform"},"modified":"2022-12-22T03:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:22:20","slug":"team-develops-graphene-based-nanoelectronics-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/team-develops-graphene-based-nanoelectronics-platform","title":{"rendered":"Team develops graphene-based nanoelectronics platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-develops-graphene-based-nanoelectronics-platform2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pressing quest in the field of nanoelectronics is the search for a material that could replace silicon. Graphene has seemed promising for decades. But its potential has faltered along the way, due to damaging processing methods and the lack of a new electronics paradigm to embrace it. With silicon nearly maxed out in its ability to accommodate faster computing, the next big nanoelectronics platform is needed now more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Walter de Heer, Regents\u2019 Professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has taken a critical step forward in making the case for a successor to silicon. De Heer and his collaborators have developed a new nanoelectronics platform based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene <\/a>\u2014a single sheet of carbon atoms. The technology is compatible with conventional microelectronics manufacturing, a necessity for any viable alternative to silicon.<\/p>\n<p>In the course of their research, published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, the team may have also discovered a new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quasiparticle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quasiparticle<\/a>. Their discovery could lead to manufacturing smaller, faster, more efficient and more sustainable computer chips, and has potential implications for quantum and high-performance computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pressing quest in the field of nanoelectronics is the search for a material that could replace silicon. Graphene has seemed promising for decades. But its potential has faltered along the way, due to damaging processing methods and the lack of a new electronics paradigm to embrace it. With silicon nearly maxed out in its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}