{"673325":{"#nid":"673325","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Beyond silicon: How graphene can help reinvigorate Moore\u2019s Law","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Intel co-founder Gordon Moore made the observation that came to be known as Moore\u0027s Law, he projected that transistor density would continue doubling in density every two years... for another ten years.\u0026nbsp;Working with Tianjin University in China, though, researchers at Georgia Tech have made a breakthrough in this department by growing graphene on doped silicon carbide wafers, introducing impurities into the graphene that give it a usable band gap, enabling the researchers to create graphene transistors the size of a carbon atom. In research led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Regents\u0027 Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/walter-de-heer\u0022\u003EWalter De Heer\u003C\/a\u003E, these switches can reach into the teraHertz range and run cooler than silicon transistors, potentially breathing new life into the aging Moore\u0027s Law.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Intel co-founder Gordon Moore made the observation that came to be known as Moore\u0027s Law, he projected that transistor density would continue doubling in density every two years... for another ten years.\u0026nbsp;Working with Tianjin University in China, though, researchers at Georgia Tech have made a breakthrough in this department by growing graphene on doped silicon carbide wafers, introducing impurities into the graphene that give it a usable band gap, enabling the researchers to create graphene transistors the size of a carbon atom. In research led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E Regents\u0027 Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/walter-de-heer\u0022\u003EWalter De Heer\u003C\/a\u003E, these switches can reach into the teraHertz range and run cooler than silicon transistors, potentially breathing new life into the aging Moore\u0027s Law.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2024-03-05 15:00:39","changed_gmt":"2024-03-05 15:00:38","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"RedShark News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.redsharknews.com\/beyond-silicon-how-graphene-can-help-reinvigorate-moores-law","dateline":{"date":"2024-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"429","name":"graphene"},{"id":"9116","name":"epitaxial graphene"},{"id":"167686","name":"Semiconductors"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}