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Graphene-Based Composite Material Could Lead to Ultra-Low-Power Transistors

An international team of researchers has used a graphene-based composite material and found a new route to ultra-low-power transistors.

8 Nov 2017

Good Practice Guide on the Characterization of Graphene

Graphene, considered to be the world's first two-dimensional material, is several times stronger than steel, and more conductive than copper, besides being flexible, lightweight and one million times thinner than a strand of human hair.

6 Nov 2017

Wrinkles in Pillared Graphene Boost Thermal Transport Abilities

According to Rice University engineers, pillared graphene would convey heat better if the theoretical material had a few asymmetric junctions that produced wrinkles.

3 Nov 2017

Application of Graphene for THz Electronics

Scientists from the Chalmers University of Technology have developed a flexible detector that can be used in teraHertz frequencies, or at frequencies of 1000 GHz. They achieved this by using graphene transistors on plastic substrates.

1 Nov 2017

Researchers Crack the Problem of Fragile and Expensive Smartphone Screens

Physicists at the University of Sussex may have come up with a solution to the long-standing problem of fragile smartphone screens.

26 Oct 2017

Speedy Cellphone Charging Could Soon Become a Reality

Charging cellphones within seconds is getting closer to reality with the recent achievement of researchers at the University of Waterloo, who used nanotechnology to considerably improve energy-storage devices called supercapacitors.

25 Oct 2017

Graphene Study Could Lead to Novel Electronic Devices

Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of the stuff in pencils, is considered as a better conductor compared to copper and is extremely promising for electronic devices with on catch: Electrons that pass through it cannot be stopped.

23 Oct 2017

Heat Treating Stacked Graphene Oxide Nanosheets to Generate Pressure

Graphene is single-atom-thick sheet of carbon that has gained global attention as an innovative material. A team of scientists from Kumamoto University, Japan, has found out that we can generate pressure by simply mounting graphene oxide nanosheets one over the other, where graphene oxide is highly identical to graphene.

3 Oct 2017

Graphene Forged into Three-Dimensional Objects with Laser Light

Researchers from Finland and Taiwan have made a discovery on how graphene, a single-atom-thin layer of carbon, can be forged into three-dimensional objects with the help of laser light.

27 Sep 2017

FAU Physicists Use Single Laser Pulse to Control Electronic Current in Graphene

It is essential to control electronic current in modern electronics because streams of electrons that transfer signals and data are controlled at high speed. With advances in technology, the need for transmission speeds is also growing.

26 Sep 2017