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February 2nd, 2010
Physicists Discover How to Grow Graphene
Abstract:
The world of materials science is aflutter with stories about graphene, a supermaterial that is capable of almost anything (if you believe the hype). This form of carbon chickenwire, they tell us, is stronger, faster and better than almost any other material you care to name.
But not cheaper. At least not yet. The big problem with graphene is making it. The only way to get it is to chip away at a bigger block of graphite and then hunt through the flakes looking for single layers of the stuff. That's not a technique that's going to revolutionise the electronics industry, regardless of how much cheap labour is available in China.
That's why an announcement from Hirokazu Fukidome at Tohoku University in Japan and a few buddies is hugely important. These guys say they have found a way to grow graphene on a silicon substrate. To show off their technique they've combined it with conventional lithography to create a graphene-on-silicon field effect transistor--just the kind of device the electronics industry wants to build by the billion.
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