27.06.08

Part of what shears off from the graphite in a pencil is a substance known as
graphene, a one-atom-thick crystal with remarkable electrical properties
that may overcome the physical limits silicon faces as transistors shrink to
ever-smaller sizes.

To extend the graphene research funding for graphene research is flowing, notably from the EU's Graphene-based Nanoelectronic Devices (GRAND) program, which among other things is looking at whether graphene would still work its wonders when integrated with the silicon CMOS process. 

Finally Graphene could lead to speciality circuits that compute in new
ways, perhaps using some characteristics of electrons other than charge.

Please find the complete press release.

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