Researchers find molybdenite may be better suited for integrated logic circuits than graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Because of its physical limitations, silicon use in tiny integrated logic circuits will have to one day soon be replaced by something that can work in a smaller state. That is, if we want to see miniaturization of computer components to continue. For several years, graphene has been seen as the most likely heir to the throne because it’s only one atom thick, which seems to be the physical limit for non-quamtum based computers. The problem with graphene though, is that it’s not a semiconductor in its natural state; it has to be put through special processes to make it so. Molybdenite (MoS2), on the other hand is a true semiconductor and it, like graphene can be produced in atom thick sizes, perhaps making it the ideal material to replace silicon once it reaches its size limits. Andras Kis and his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, seem to believe so, their research into a way to create an actual integrated logic circuit from this material has been published in Nature Nanotechnology....
Source: PhysOrg - Wednesday, 1 February
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