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Graphene transistors based on negative resistance could spell the end of silicon and semiconductors
2013-08-20 15:01:01| Extremetech
With silicon fast running out of steam and no clear path beyond 14nm, graphene might just be the light at the end of the tunnel. For that to occur, though, we first need to turn graphene into a reliable semiconductor -- the world's greatest chemists and physicists need to get together and work out how to switch graphene off. This is proving to be a lot harder than it sounds -- but now, thanks to a fancy effect called negative resistance, researchers at the University of Riverside, California (UCR) may have cracked it.
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