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Article: Graphene has high current capacity, thermal conductivity.(GRAPHENE)
- Article from:
- Advanced Ceramics Report
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Recent research carried out by a team of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips: in widths as narrow as 16 nm, graphene has a current carrying capacity approximately a thousand times greater than copper while simultaneously providing improved thermal conductivity.
An engineer in the Nanotechnology Research Center, Raghunath Murali, who led the project, comments: "Graphene nanoribbons exhibit an impressive breakdown current density that is related to the resistivity. Our measurements show that these graphene ...