Why Samsung’s Graphene breakthrough so important for flexible devices
Samsung discovered a way of developing next wonder material— Graphene—on a commercial scale. New era of wearable tech has begun.
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An eight-lettered word ‘Graphene’ might as well be coined the material of the millennium, for Samsung Electronics is anticipating a breakthrough in technology that can make smartphones thinner, more flexible and capable of delivering internet at a rocket pace using this “wonder material”. A group of researchers have started working on techniques to synthesize the incredibility of graphene.
Discovered in 2004, Graphene is amazingly stronger than any other material used in the Smartphone manufacturing today. Only an atom thick, it’s probably the thinnest material known to researchers till date. Samsung is looking forward to utilizing this property to make sleek, less bulky and classier phones. In addition to this, Graphene has immense flexibility and great conductivity.
The picture for future Samsung Smartphones appears to be a bright one; Graphene is likely to usher in many such many wonders to the industry. The thinnest material will keep the other components inside the phone thinner and hence lead way for slimmer smartphones. Its durability speaks to a greater magnitude, too; it’s more durable than steel and could therefore churn out a way for stronger, less prone to damage devices. Above all, it promises a cure for the lazy internet by offering to deliver internet at a speed 100 times the normal.
Till now, the wonderful Graphene has majorly remained untapped. Its widespread commercialization hadn’t found its way, mainly due to cost inhibitions and other limitations. Previous attempts at synthesizing graphene wafers have, thereby, remained unsuccessful.
But recently, scientists at Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology along with Sungkyunkwan University have figured out a to create significant portions of Graphene crystals in a single wafer layer, rather than clubbing all the crystals together that hampered its electrical conductivity.
There are speculations about Graphene replacing Silicon as the manufacturing material in the near future. But Silicon’s tenacity can’t be easily pushed into oblivion, considering the low energy gap of Graphene- it is super-conductive and is never really “off”.
Samsung’s phenomenal venture into the flexible-wearable and handset industry is sure to lure millions. It is anticipated that Graphene based technology will permeate the market by 2015.
