MIT’s New Graphene Breakthrough Is Shaping the Future of Quantum Computing

2024-02-23 07:50 AM by Wanda Parisien

The fractional quantum Hall effect has generally been seen under very high magnetic fields, but MIT physicists have now observed it in simple graphene. In a five-layer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) moire superlattice, electrons (blue ball) interact with each other strongly and behave as if they are broken into fractional charges. Credit: Sampson Wilcox, RLE …

Researchers create a functional semiconductor made from graphene

2024-01-04 05:07 AM by Wanda Parisien

Silicon, the semiconductor material used to make most of modern electronics, is reaching its limit as increasingly faster computing and smaller electronic devices are being developed. Now, as an alternative, researchers have created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known. Researchers …