Graphene nanoribbons which can be used to boost a materialselectronic properties and strength hold promise for a number of applications.
#Graphene sheaths could boost processor signal speeds by 30 per cent Scientists at Stanford have found a new use for graphene that will significantly increase the speed of standard computer processors.
instead used an atom-thick layer of graphene to sheath the copper, and found that could boost the data transfer speeds of the wires:
the graphene-coated interconnects, depending on their length, can reliably transfer data between four and 17 per cent faster than the equivalent interconnects in today's processor designs, apparently."
"Graphene has been promised to benefit the electronics industry for a long time, and using it as a copper barrier is perhaps the first realization of this promise."
"The advantages of using graphene in this way are twofold. Firstly, from an engineering standpoint, graphene is a much more efficient material,
taking up a ninth of the space of tantalum nitride coatings. But the biggest advantage is that the graphene actually acts both as an insulator,
but also a conductor. The team found that electrons would travel through the graphene as well as through the copper wire,
and it was there that the speed benefits really kicked in. The team, which will present its findings at the Symposia of VLSI Technology And circuits in Kyoto,
if the graphene tech is shrunk down to next-generation process sizes. The research is interesting,
The team are now looking into how to grow the graphene directly onto copper wires,
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