Accession Number:

ADA516865

Title:

The Carbon New Age

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

BOSTON UNIV MA DEPT OF PHYSICS

Personal Author(s):

• Castro Neto, Antonio H.

Report Date:

2010-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

7.0

Abstract:

Graphene has been considered by many as a revolutionary material with electronic and structural properties that surpass conventional semiconductors and metals. Due to its superlative qualities, graphene is being considered as the reference material for a post-CMOS technology. Furthermore, graphene is also quite unusual electronically since its electric carriers behave as if they were massless and relativistic, the so-called Dirac particles. Because of its exotic electronic properties, theorists are being forced to revisit the conceptual basis for the theory of metals. Hence, graphene seems to be unveiling a new era in science and technology with still unseen consequences.

Descriptors:

• *STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES
• *CARBON
• THEORY
• SUBSTRATES
• TRANSCONDUCTANCE
• LIMITATIONS
• THERMAL EXPANSION
• COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS
• REPRINTS
• METALS
• SEMICONDUCTORS

Subject Categories:

• Inorganic Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry
• Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE