
, skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home August 29, 2012 New technique could mean super thin , strong graphene-based circuits Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Tweet Integrated circuits , which are in everything from coffeemakers to computers and are patterned from perfectly crystalline silicon , are quite thin but Cornell researchers think they can push thin-film boundaries to the single-atom . level Their materials of choice are graphene , single atom-thick sheets of repeating carbon atoms , and hexagonal boron nitride , similarly thin sheets of repeating boron and nitrogen atoms . Researchers led by Jiwoong Park , assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology , have invented a way to pattern single atom films of graphene and boron nitride , an insulator ,