{"id":519236,"date":"2018-09-10T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d2a64233de7f1d9dc8c06857029788b9"},"modified":"2018-09-10T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:00:04","slug":"graphene-enables-clock-rates-in-the-terahertz-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=519236","title":{"rendered":"Graphene enables clock rates in the terahertz range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene\u2014an ultrathin material consisting of a single layer of interlinked carbon atoms\u2014is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today&#8217;s silicon-based electronics. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), have now shown for the first time that graphene can actually convert electronic signals with frequencies in the gigahertz range\u2014which correspond to today&#8217;s clock rates\u2014extremely efficiently into signals with several times higher frequency. The researchers present their results in the scientific journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphene&mdash;an ultrathin material consisting of a single layer of interlinked carbon atoms&mdash;is considered a promising candidate for the nanoelectronics of the future. In theory, it should allow clock rates up to a thousand times faster than today&#8217;s silicon-based electronics. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), have now shown for the first time that graphene can actually convert electronic signals with frequencies in the gigahertz range&mdash;which correspond to today&#8217;s clock rates&mdash;extremely efficiently into signals with several times higher frequency. The researchers present their results in the scientific journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519237,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519236\/revisions\/519237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}