IBM Work With World’s Thinnest Material Seen Creating Faster PCs
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A one-atom-thick layer of carbon may one day help International Business Machines Corp. and the U.S. military build more precise radar and computers that operate at near the speed of light.
Physicists Konstantin Novoselov, 36, and Andre Geim, 52, at the University of Manchester in the U.K., have found a way to manipulate how graphene, the thinnest and toughest material ever produced, conducts electricity, a breakthrough that opens the door to its use in digital electronics.