Carbon Transistors Promise More Speed and RAM Capacity

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I can't wait until tech like this comes to market. The pace of research just keeps accelerating and given the average ~10-15 year turnaround to market, we are going to start seeing some awesome advancements / new products at an ever increasing rate.
 
Can't wait for carbon and graphene to be used more and not just hear stories about them! Seems like a great time to be alive for a nerd!
 
Instead of more memory I'd like more battery life. I don't need a phone with 8 GB of RAM whose battery lasts only a day.
 
[citation][nom]Horhe[/nom]Instead of more memory I'd like more battery life. I don't need a phone with 8 GB of RAM whose battery lasts only a day.[/citation]
stop watching porn on your phone and quit playing games and get back to work.
every phone i've had lasts for over 36 hours before needing a recharge.
 
[citation][nom]derekullo[/nom]Wouldn't the carbon just float away when it gets hot?[/citation]
This made me laugh. I guess/hope you're just fooling around, right?
 
Would like to see some number's on power consumption, most of the power consumption of FET's come from the gate leakage, from what little I read it sound's like the new construction method along with the carbon itself will vastly improve that, with silicon as lithography processes have gone smaller power consumption has remained relatively static due to balancing lower voltage requirements with increased current consumption. And why this focus on RAM? Solid state storage using this technology will finally signal the end of over 6+ decades of magnetic disks for primary storage.
 
[citation][nom]derekullo[/nom]Wouldn't the carbon just float away when it gets hot?[/citation]

No, the carbon would not float away. You're thinking of carbon's molecules with oxygen.

[citation][nom]WyomingKnott[/nom]Is graphene flammable?[/citation]

You might be able to get it to burn at extremely high temperatures and in very high oxygen environments (might need pure or almost pure oxygen), but not in any situation that's even remotely likely with use of it in electronics. If you're asking this question because of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, well from what I know of them, they are generally made by burning chemicals that have carbon in them, not burning carbon itself.
 
[citation][nom]Horhe[/nom]Instead of more memory I'd like more battery life. I don't need a phone with 8 GB of RAM whose battery lasts only a day.[/citation]

Then buy an extended battery. Amazon often has them for dirt cheap for a wide variety of phones and my Evo 4G Android phone lasts two to three days of heavier usage with it and much longer with light usage.
 
[citation][nom]nitrium[/nom]No. Not even slightly. It is the same material used in standard pencils (leads). Try and get that to burn. Even a blow torch as no effect![/citation]

I did that once with a lighter. It wouldn't burn, but after a minute or two with a lighter, a piece of .7mm lead from a mechanical pencil did explode. It left a few very small scorched holes in a carpet that was a few feet away and the holes had little pieces of graphite shrapnel. Admittedly, it was far from being my brightest idea and could have had much worse results. However, like you're saying now, it didn't actually seem to burn the pencil lead. i'm not sure of why it exploded, but if I had to guess, there might have been impurities that caused it.
 
When last I checked (admittedly, a decade ago), C-60, or Buckminsterfullerene ("Bucky Balls") was not possible to manufacture. It could be detected in trace amounts when burning various fuels, if I remember correctly, but it was only a minute percentage of various other forms of resultant carbon, all mixed together. Does there now exist a way to manufacture and isolate economically feasible amounts of C-60?
 
[citation][nom]that man[/nom]When last I checked (admittedly, a decade ago), C-60, or Buckminsterfullerene ("Bucky Balls") was not possible to manufacture. It could be detected in trace amounts when burning various fuels, if I remember correctly, but it was only a minute percentage of various other forms of resultant carbon, all mixed together. Does there now exist a way to manufacture and isolate economically feasible amounts of C-60?[/citation]

We've been able to manufacture graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, etc. etc. for quite a while now, granted this might not be the easiest/cheapest thing to do. I don't know if it is economically feasible, but we've been improving with this sort of work very much and it might be. If transistors made from them can be produced on current fab's technology like these scientists claim, then it would seem that we can manufacture them fairly well.
 
[citation][nom]Horhe[/nom]Instead of more memory I'd like more battery life. I don't need a phone with 8 GB of RAM whose battery lasts only a day.[/citation]

Logically, a smaller and more compact RAM chip consumes less power.
 
[citation][nom]Horhe[/nom]Instead of more memory I'd like more battery life. I don't need a phone with 8 GB of RAM whose battery lasts only a day.[/citation]

in fact as memory could consume up to 20% of your battery, better Memory also implies more battery life ;-)
 
[citation][nom]Horhe[/nom]Instead of more memory I'd like more battery life. I don't need a phone with 8 GB of RAM whose battery lasts only a day.[/citation]

blame apple for starting the retarded thin war. ans blame everyone else for buying into it.

[citation][nom]Kami3k[/nom]Can't wait for carbon and graphene to be used more and not just hear stories about them! Seems like a great time to be alive for a nerd![/citation]

no, its a crappy time to be a nerd. most of the advancements we would have loved to be part of happened long ago, and its going to take a hell of along time before the advancements get far enough again to be interesting... unless you are in an academic environment.
 
[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]stop watching porn on your phone and quit playing games and get back to work.every phone i've had lasts for over 36 hours before needing a recharge.[/citation]
No videos and no games? If you're not going to play games and watch videos, you can just get a Blackberry and stop bothering the people who own real smartphones.
 
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