Nanoribbons To Speedup Computer Chips - Gizmo Watch: "Nano chemists research team of Stanford University have successfully demonstrated that carbon nanoribbons can be used to make transistors which can be integrated into computer chips to increase speed with low heating. Recent study published online in Physical Review Letters and previous one in Science, looks set to revolutionalise new generation computer chips. The research team has demonstrated that nanoribbons made from graphene (a form of carbon made grahite) can be used to make field-effect transistors which are building blocks of computer-chips. This has been attempted before with wider nanoribbons but they worked only at low temperatures. Standford researchers lead by Hongjie Dai have made graphene ribbons less than 10 nanometers wide, which when integrated into transistor can work at room temperature as well."
