IBM scientists have reportedly created the worlds fastest graphene transistor, one that is capable of 100 billion cycles/second or 100GHz. The technology used to develop the new transistor is compatible to that used in today’s advanced silicon device fabrication and consists of using wafer-scale and epitaxially grown graphene.
Graphene is a material that is a single atom thick layer of carbon atoms and has unique electrical, mechanical, optical and thermal properties. It is because Graphene allows electrons to propagate at extremely high speeds that IBM believes it will form the foundation of the next generation transistors and could eventually replace the silicon transistor. Would this mean that we would need to rename Silicon Valley if this ever came to pass?
This type of breakthrough technology can lead to faster processors and computers, but like many of these stories, this is a research study at this time. We’re still quite some time away before this technology ever made it’s way into consumer electronics.
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