As the integration technology is advancing, transistors are being placed closer and closer together. This can create no problem untill there’s no more room to improve, or something revolutionary has to come along to change everything.
One of the materials that might cause a revolution in integration technology is graphene. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are working on the so-called nanoribbon graphene that could increase the density of transistors on a computer chip by as much as 10,000 times.
Graphene has already earned its discoverers a Nobel Prize, it is a sheet of carbon only one layer of atoms thick. It is 2-dimensional and possesses incredible properties like extreme electrical conductivity at room temperature. Researchers have been working on producing high quality sheets of the material.
If everything goes well, graphene nanoribbons could allow all electronic circuits to be improved dramatically. Everything from CPUs to storage technology could get faster, and Moore’s Law might have a future after all.
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