{"id":82519,"date":"2018-09-12T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/graphene-enables-clock-rates-in-the-terahertz-range"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:21:14","slug":"graphene-enables-clock-rates-in-the-terahertz-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/graphene-enables-clock-rates-in-the-terahertz-range","title":{"rendered":"Graphene enables clock rates in the terahertz range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/graphene-enables-clock-rates-in-the-terahertz-range2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graphene \u2014 an ultrathin material consisting of a single layer of interlinked carbon atoms \u2014 is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today\u2019s silicon-based electronics. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), have now shown for the first time that graphene can actually convert electronic signals with frequencies in the gigahertz range \u2014 which correspond to today\u2019s clock rates \u2014 extremely efficiently into signals with several times higher frequency. The researchers present their results in the scientific journal <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/09\/180910111258.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/09\/180910111258.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene \u2014 an ultrathin material consisting of a single layer of interlinked carbon atoms \u2014 is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today\u2019s silicon-based electronics. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Duisburg-Essen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82519","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82669,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82519\/revisions\/82669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}