How Graphene Is Set to Revolutionize Electronics and Telecommunications

Posted by Radmin on December 5th, 2019

A two-dimensional carbon substance with the thickness of a single atom, graphene is considered the world's thinnest, strongest, and most conductive material. It has several excellent properties, such as enhanced mechanical endurance, high electron mobility, and incomparable thermal conductivity, making it perfect for various applications.

Made available on different substrates, including graphene on SiO2, the material can revolutionize entire industries, especially in electronics and telecommunications.

Graphene in Batteries

There are various technologies available for manufacturing batteries, and each comes with several compromises in terms of weight, energy storage, and performance. For example, capacitors are lightweight and charge rapidly, but they have a limited capacity.

Meanwhile, batteries can store greater charges. The downsides are they're heavy and slow to recharge. Thankfully, there are recent developments in graphene research that offer solutions to these issues.

With graphene technology, batteries can be made to hold their charge for a longer period. They can also become lighter, more durable, and faster to recharge.

Graphene in Transistors    

Engineers around the world are excited about the prospect of using graphene to produce faster transistors and circuits. With its conductivity, it's poised to replace silicon, which is the most commonly used semiconducting material.

Silicon doesn't provide the ideal environment for electron mobility. It's widely used only because of its excellent mechanical strength and ease of manufacture. But, some applications, such as high-frequency wireless transmitters and receivers in cellular phones, require higher mobility, and this is where graphene transistors come in.

With graphene transistor-based logic circuits, a massive jump in speed can be achieved. Electronic devices will become faster and more efficient as manufacturers become capable of shrinking technology and fitting in additional features.

Graphene in Touchscreens

With its excellent strength, transparency, and flexibility, graphene has the potential to replace indium tin oxide as a primary material for producing touchscreens in smartphones and tablets.

Apart from being transparent and its ability to conduct electricity, graphene is less expensive than indium, which is one of the rarest elements on the planet.

The electronics and telecommunications industry is the largest end-user for SiO2 graphene and its range of derivative products. Although most of the developments are still in the research stage, this material is set to revolutionize battery, semiconducting, and touchscreen technologies and usher in a batch of faster devices. It's only a matter of time when these advances become available commercially.

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