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Diamond used to produce graphene quantum dots and nano-ribbons of controlled structure

Kansas State University researchers have come closer to solving an old challenge of producing graphene quantum dots of controlled shape and size at large densities, which could revolutionize electronics and optoelectronics.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electronic life on the edge: Scientists discover the edge states of graphene nanoribbons

(PhysOrg.com) -- As far back as the 1990s, long before anyone had actually isolated graphene – a honeycomb lattice of carbon just one atom thick – theorists were predicting extraordinary properties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Scientists prove graphene's edge structure affects electronic properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, holds remarkable promise for future nanoelectronics applications. Whether graphene actually cuts it in industry, however, depends upon how graphene ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Current flowing along the edges of a promising quantum device is insensitive to its magnetic impurities

Conductors of electrical current, including copper, heat up and limit the ability to increase circuit densities. Unusual materials that exhibit the so-called ‘quantum spin Hall effect’, in which ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0