Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 09:56
in Physics & Chemistry
It is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both eccentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and besides, very young. Not until 2004 was it possible to specifically produce and investigate the single layer of carbon atoms. Its electronic properties are remarkable, because, among other things, its electrons can move so tremendously fast...