Samsung says its engineers are the first to use a new synthesis method that could speed up the commercialisation of graphene, paving the way for new categories of mobile devices, wearable technology and flexible displays.
Graphene is a ‘wonder-material’ which is one-atom thick and arranged in a hexagonal pattern. It is exceptionally strong, lightweight and flexible, while it also has conductive properties that allow electrons to glow up to 100 times faster than in silicon, the most widely used material in the semiconductor industry today.
It is possible that graphene will eventually replace silicon, but at present, growing sheets of graphene is a difficult and expensive process. There have been significant investments to commercialise the material, but engineers have struggled so far.
However, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), through a partnership with Sungkyunkwan University, says its engineers are the first in the world to create a method to grow single crystal graphene into a large area.
“This is one of the most significant breakthroughs in graphene research in history,” said the laboratory leaders at SAIT’s Lab, whose research has been published in the scientific journal, Science Magazine and Science Express “We expect this discovery to accelerate the commercialisation of graphene, which could unlock the next era of consumer electronic technology.”
The research was funded by South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), making it but one of a number of government studies into graphene. The European Union has made the research of the material a priority and has promised a significant investment into the technology.
Graphene was first described in 1962, but actual samples were only produced in 2004 by researchers Geim and Novoselov from the University of Manchester. The UK government is concerned that it might fall behind Asia in graphene development has pledged public money into its research. The University of Cambridge is also keen to take advantage and announced the establishment of a £25 million graphene research centre last year.
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"This doesn’t mean that we’ll suddenly see computer chips made out of graphene instead of silicon, though — we still haven’t found a way of giving graphene a bandgap, which means it’s actually fairly useless as far as digital computing goes."
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O N L Y BOSE-EINSTEIN QUANTUM-STATISTICS(BEC)
WITH INHERENT INTRINSIC GAP-FUL BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION!!!(BEC!!!)
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"Computational"-"Complexity" Cook-Levin theorem REDUCIBILITY/COMPLETENESS
Siegel-Antonoff-Smith[AMS Joint Mtg.(2002)-Abs.973-60-124]
digits logarithmic- (Newcomb[Am. J. Math.4,39(1881)]-Weyl[Goett. Nachr.(1914);
Math. Ann. 77,313(1916)]-Benford[J. Am. Phil. Soc. 78,115(1938)]-Kac[The
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to ONLY Bose-Einstein Quantum-Statistics with digit d = 0 gapFUL
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86,5632(2001); Rev. Mod. Phys. 74,47(2002);...]
"scale-free"/SCALE-INVARIANCE networks-physics: evolving
complex-graph-theory 1:1-mapping onto statistical-physics/mechanics!!!
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INvulnerability) via Barabasi-Bianconi-Albert "Network-Physics"
scale-free SCALE-INVARIANCE relative-"statics"(VS.
dynamics-[Willinger-Alderson-Doyle(Not.AMS(5/09)]-]critique)!!! (so called)
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"noise"-induced-phase-transitions(NITS) ACCELERATION: Cook-Levin
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mea culpa)can ONLY be Maxwell-Boltzmann classical-statistics
"infinitely-hot-plasma" versus digit-clumping
"NeWBe"-logarithm-law NON-random BEC; Modular-arithmetic Congruences
= Signal X Noise PRODUCTS = clock-model; NON-Shor Holthaus-Page-Weiss[Physica
A,341,586(04)] BEC logarithmic-law inversion factorization: Watkins
number-theory intersection/connections to statistical-physics/mechanics);
P=/=NP TRIVIAL Proof: Euclid!!! [(So Miscalled) computational-complexity(VS.
Siegel physics-"complexity" is UTTER-SIMPLICITY!!!)
jargonial-obfurscation(J-O) obviation via classic Greek plane-geometry.]
PREAMBLE TO PREVIOUS COMMENT!!!:
C A V E A T E M P T O R ! ! !
FROM DR. KARL-LUDWIG "MONJU" ("KLM") SIEGEL
A, IF NOT ONE OF THE, FATHER OF B O T H
EXPERIMENTAL A N D THEORETICAL
N A N O - PHYSICS
AFTER:
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[U.OF MICHIGAN(UM; ANN ARBOR)
&
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MANY MANY MANY INTERNAL REPORTS[1968-2000s]:
[MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING(1971); PHYSICS STATUS SOLIDI(1972); SCRIPTA METALLURGICA(1971-1979: ESP.: 13, 913(1979)=WITH T. MATSUBARA!!!; PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY OF LIQUIDS(1975; 1976)=EIGHT-PAPERS; STATPHYS-13, HAIFA(1977)=WITH T. MATSUBARA!!!; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LATTICE-DYNAMICS, PARIS(1977)=WITH T. MATSUBARA!!!; SEMICONDUCTORS & INSULATORS (1979)=THREE CONTIGUOUS-PAPERS!!!INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAGNETIC ALLOYS & OXIDES (ICMAO), HAIFA(1977)=PUBLISHED IN JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM & MAGNETIC MATERIALS, VOLUME 7(1978)= PAGE 338=FIRST PREDICTION OF COLOSSAL-MAGNETORESISTANCE (CMR)!!! & PAGE 312 = FIRST EXPERIMENTAL DISCOVERY OF GIANT-MAGNETORESISTANCE (GMR)!!! [(1988) “FERT”&(1989)”GRUENBERG”–1978(SIEGEL]=ONE DECADE PRECEDENCE!!!] WORLD CONGRESS ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, MUNICH(1992)= PUBLISHED IN APPLIED-SUPERCONDUCTIVITY(1992)= HYDROGEN-ION/PROTON-IMPLANTED DIAMOND POLYMER IF NOT GRAPHENE(?) HYPER IF NOT SUPER-CONDUCTORS!!! [GOOGLE: EDWARD SIEGEL APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY”]
A, IF NOT THE, FATHER OF BOTH EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL NANO-PHYSICS AFTER:
KUBO(1962)-FULDE(1965)-MATSUBARA(1960s-200s)-SIEGEL:
[U.OF MICHIGAN(UM)-WITH CHARLES VEST!!!(MIT PRESIDENT-EMERITUS; CHAIRMAN-EMERITUS, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING; & MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY(MSU)-WITH CLEMENT TATRO!!! & FORD SCIENTIFIC-LABORATORY & GENERAL-MORORS RESEARCH & WESTINGHOUSE & PSEG & IAEA & ABB REPORTS[1968-2000s]
A Samsung invention? I'm sure Apple will claim to have invented it first.....