{"id":87989,"date":"2019-02-19T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/breakthrough-in-the-search-for-graphene-based-electronics"},"modified":"2019-02-19T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:43:11","slug":"breakthrough-in-the-search-for-graphene-based-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/breakthrough-in-the-search-for-graphene-based-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in the search for graphene-based electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For 15 years, scientists have tried to exploit the \u201cmiracle material\u201d graphene to produce nanoscale electronics. On paper, graphene should be great for just that: it is ultra-thin\u2014only one atom thick and therefore two-dimensional, it is excellent for conducting electrical current, and holds great promise for future forms of electronics that are faster and more energy efficient. In addition, graphene consists of carbon atoms \u2013 of which we have an unlimited supply.<\/p>\n

In theory, graphene can be altered to perform many different tasks within e.g. electronics, photonics or sensors simply by cutting tiny patterns in it, as this fundamentally alters its quantum properties<\/a>. One \u201csimple\u201d task, which has turned out to be surprisingly difficult, is to induce a band gap\u2014which is crucial for making transistors and optoelectronic devices. However, since graphene is only an atom thick all of the atoms are important and even tiny irregularities in the pattern can destroy its properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cGraphene is a fantastic material, which I think will play a crucial role in making new nanoscale electronics. The problem is that it is extremely difficult to engineer the electrical properties,\u201d says Peter B\u00f8ggild, professor atDTU Physics.<\/p>\n

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For 15 years, scientists have tried to exploit the \u201cmiracle material\u201d graphene to produce nanoscale electronics. On paper, graphene should be great for just that: it is ultra-thin\u2014only one atom thick and therefore two-dimensional, it is excellent for conducting electrical current, and holds great promise for future forms of electronics that are faster and more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87989","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}