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Published on: 9/22/2008
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Dr. Nancy Sandler, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio University, in collaboration with postdoctoral fellow Mahdi Zarea, began researching the electron phenomena present in graphene wires over a year ago.
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According to Sandler, under certain conditions carbon is a better conductor than silicon, because only a minimum push is required to stimulate electrons to move in graphene.They also move faster and refrain from deviating from their path, even at room temperatures.
When graphene is made into very thin wires however, the conduction properties of the material change dramatically.Sandler and Zarea's findings on the 'minimum widths' below which graphene ribbons fail to be good conductors at room temperatures due to the natural repulsion of like charges when they are confined, was recently published in the journal Physical Review Letters and in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
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The U.S. team, led by SPIRE director Smith along with co-directors Saw-Wai Hla, Nancy Sandler and Sergio Ulloa, will partner with the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany and the condensed matter theory research group at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and at Centro Atomico Constituyentes, Buenos Aires, Argentina to form a focused, integrated and complementary collaboration.