Research team finds graphene may pave the way for new kinds of optoelectronic devices
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team comprised of researchers from MIT and Harvard has discovered yet another unique and useful property of graphne, this time it involves optics. As they describe in their paper published in Science, when light, or in this case a laser, is aimed at an object with a graphene surface its electrons get hot and remain so for longer than the rest of the object. This property opens up the door to all kinds of possibilities for new kinds of superfast photo-detectors and energy harvesting technology.