All these use cases, not much action
Lindsay Clark
Tue 16 Feb 2021 // 10:30 UTC
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Wrinkles and bubbles in wonder substance graphene are showing electronic properties researchers say could one day help solve limits on current microprocessor designs.
A team at the UK's University of Sussex, along with international collaborators, have shown that creating kinks in the structure of graphene can make nanomaterial behave like a transistor.
Using graphene less than a nanometre in thickness, the researchers showed that kinks about 2nm across create the same effect on electrical conductivity as a simple bipolar transistor. The height of each kink is between 4nm and 8nm, a variable that helps engineers tune the transistor, Manoj Tripathi, research fellow in nanostructured materials at the University of Sussex told