Researchers at the Georgia Institute for Technology have found a new semiconductor that’s a really good candidate for making computers faster and smaller than ever. Amazingly enough, it works by combining graphene with silicon carbide, to give a material with a sensible band gap that still has a high thermal conductivity.

Correction to what I say at 02:54 --- That should have been voltage, not current.

Paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

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