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Using graphene, internet connection speeds could be tens of times faster

September 1, 2011 – 3:00 pm
  • Using graphene, internet connection speeds could be tens of times faster - Writing in the journal Nature Communications ("Strong plasmonic enhancement of photovoltage in graphene"), a collaboration between the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge, which includes Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, has discovered a crucial recipe for improving characteristics of graphene devices for use as photodetectors in future high-speed optical communications. By combining graphene with metallic nanostructures, they show a twentyfold enhancement in harvesting light by graphene, which paves the way for advances in high-speed internet and other communications.
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