In tennis, the materials of the tennis court affect the performance of the ball. Such is the case, on a miles, much smaller scale, for electron movement across circuitry. Silicon chips give resistance that lowers the rate limit, while atom-thick sheets of carbon (a.k.a. graphene) have a distinct property whereby free electrons are almost weightless and may travel up to 0.003 times the velocity of light — sounds great, nonetheless it\’s hard to provide in bulk. Cut to Han Woong Yeom and Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. His team has added a thin layer lead on a silicon chip, lowering the electron mass (and thus proportionally raising its speed) to at least one/20th compared to traditional silicon. Still some distance to move for graphene speeds — by a factor of three, in step with Yeom — nonetheless it\’s also likely to mass production.
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