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If I'm reading this correctly, this would more accurately be a graphene wafer, right? There are no circuits on this thing, it's just a sheet of graphene, right?
by causal 3y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, this would more accurately be a graphene wafer, right? There are no circuits on this thing, it's just a sheet of graphene, right? Still remarkable if so, just not what I would call a "functioning chip".
- OnACoffeeBreak 3y agoI only scanned the article and the paper, but the paper linked in the article talks about the researchers characterizing performance of a MosFET.
- gwill 3y agoyea, looks like the author doesn't understand the difference between a semiconductor and a chip. the researchers said "functioning semiconductor".
- deepsquirrelnet 3y agoLikely single devices patterned from a epitaxially grown graphene layer. It would be a functioning transistor —- or set of transistors, albeit not terribly useful as single devices. Typically they would pattern the devices with large metal landing pads to drop probes onto, and perform characterization from there.
- idiotsecant 3y agoThe difference is just engineering once the material science is there.