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Re:Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is ... by emiliobumachar on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:25PM (#16523625)
Super-transistor? I hate to stomp on innovation, but, mechanically rotating parts of a transistor to switch it would seem like a large step backwards relative to the electrically-switchable status quo.
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Re:Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is ... by skykooler on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:12PM (#16523971)
It's switched by a gate voltage.

> The researchers continued to measure the electrical resistance of the material, and found that when they added a certain, small amount of electrons, the electrical current flowed without dissipating energy — just like a superconductor.

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