The pacing development in graphene is ever so steadily taking us into a future of faster and better electronics, perhaps not feasible with silicon. Graphene has been induced as a replacement for silicon in microchips already, and with scientists from the University of Texas, creating large-area graphene on copper foils, we have stepped further into a whole new era of faster computers and electronic devices, consuming lesser powers.
The new member of the semiconductor industry funded by state of Texas, the South West Academy for Nanoelectronics (SWAN) and the DARPA CERA Center, is up to meet all demands given its potential to make into the nanoelectronic devices, memory storage and even semi-capacitates and batteries of the gadgets we vision to rule us in the future.
The large-area graphene, like Professor Rod Ruoff states, can also be an option for transparent and electrically conductive films for image display technology and for use in solar photovoltaic electrical power generation.
Via: ScienceDaily
