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Princeton U. team develops carbon integrated circuit printing technique

Princeton U. team develops carbon integrated circuit printing technique

A team of researchers at Princeton University have made breakthroughs on the process in which transistors can be printed in carbon. The only task left is to scale the process up to commercial-grade production rates.

Carbon transistors, such as in processors, were shown to be up to 10x faster than silicon. 40Ghz processors, anyone? 6.6Ghz smartphones? 🙂

Comments

  1. Thrax
    Thrax From the Department of Coming in Late 200never.
  2. primesuspect
    primesuspect Five Years From Now?
  3. mas0n
    mas0n Being able to do it is one thing, making it affordable is the real challange.
  4. the_technocrat
    the_technocrat
    The only task left is to scale the process up to commercial-grade production rates

    at a profit, of course.
  5. mmonnin
    mmonnin ASML TwinScaners print a 300mm wafer in less than 30 seconds. I dont know the exact time but a map is displayed on the side of the tool and it whips through wafers. For this to become anywhere close to practicle it will have to compete with the speed of ASML's TwinScan.
  6. the_technocrat
    the_technocrat I'm guessing 5 years to carbon, 15 to optical.

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