Independent:
Cell phones, computers, and other electronic devices could run
much faster if they were made with graphene, the world’s
thinnest material. Writing in the journal
Nature Physics, Nobel laureates Andre Geim and Kostya
Novoselov from Manchester University, and their coworkers,
have
revealed more about graphene’s electronic properties.
They have found that electrons in graphene are very different
from those in any other metals and that interactions between
them significantly enhance their already high velocity. Because
electrons travel many times faster in graphene than in silicon,
which is the basis of modern computer chips, graphene could
possibly be used to drastically speed up electronic devices.
"Electrons in graphene have huge mobility; they travel very
fast. It's quite a big result in terms of the physics, and it
may have some implications in terms of potential applications,"
Novoselov said.
