Apr 21
Researchers in the University of Manchester have used the world's thinnest material, Graphene, to fabricate the world's smallest transistor. The newly created transistor is only one atom thick and ten atoms wide!.

Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. Its is the basic structural element of all other graphitic materials including graphite, and fullerenes. It is a large aromatic molecule, an extension of a family of flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

 

We can hope that it will soon replace the custom Silicon wafer technology which is always under the shadow of the threatening Moore's Law!

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