Using ‘miracle material’ graphene in telecommunications could dramatically make the internet a hundred times faster, a new study has found. Researchers from the Universities of Bath and Exeter have demonstrated for the first time incredibly short optical response rates using graphene, which could pave the way for a revolution in telecommunications. Ordinarily optical switches respond at the rate of a few picoseconds, around a trillionth of a second. Through this study, physicists have observed the response rate of an optical switch using ‘few layer graphene’ to be around one hundred femto seconds, nearly a hundred times quicker than current materials. Graphene is just one atom thick, but remarkably strong. Scientists have suggested that it would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil to break through a single sheet.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 13:19:20 +0000
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