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Tuning In to Graphene

By Alex Wright
Communications of the ACM, October 2013, Vol. 56 No. 10, Pages 15-17
10.1145/2507771.2507776
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nanomaterials — Nanomaterials enable new technologies.

Credit: Ian Akyildiz / Georgia Tech

In March of this year, a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology made headlines when it revealed plans for a new microscopic antenna built out of graphene, a synthetic form of carbon with remarkable conductive properties.

Early press coverage focused on the promise of speedier wireless connections, and with good reason: such an antenna could, in principle, allow for terabit-per-second transfer speedsfast enough to download a high-definition movie in a fraction of a second. At distances of a few centimeters, download speeds could approach an astonishing 100 terabits per secondthe equivalent of three months' worth of HD footage.

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