Exfoliating wafer-scale graphene down to one layer

Editor’s note: This
article is by IBM Research scientists Jeehwan Kim and Hongsik Park, who work in carbon electronics.




Dr. Jeewhan Kim


Graphene
holds promise as the linchpin material for breakthroughs in everything from high-frequency
transistors and photo-detectors, to flexible electronics and biosensors because
of its supreme electrical, optical and mechanical properties. And
while

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Fins on transistors change processor power and performance

Editor's
note: This article is by IBM Research Scientist Dr. Sani Nassif.





IBM,
University of Glasgow and the Scottish Funding Council are collaborating on a
project to simulate 3D microprocessor transistors at a mere 14 nanometer scale
(the virus that causes the common cold is more than twice as large at 32 nanometers). Using a silicon-on-insulator
(SOI) substrate, the FinFET (fin

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Holey Optochip Transfers One Trillion Bits of Information

IBM scientists have developed a prototype optical
chipset, called Holey Optochip, that is the first parallel optical transceiver
to transfer one trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second, the
equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will occur at
the Optical Fiber Communication
Conference taking place in Los Angeles, Calif.

Read the announcement on ibm.com.

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