Can someone explain to a layman why magnetism is a big deal here? I am assuming it’s computer related. I am usually not so dense about this stuff.
I’ll make an attempt.
Transistors.
Need to stop and start electron flow.
Because that is how information is encoded.
But electron flow in pure graphene can’t be stopped. So it’s useless in computers for transmitting and processing information.
Dope it with other substances and the superconductor quality of graphene goes bye-bye.
Magnetism does the job without doping, without interfering with graphene’s superconductivity.
Graphene takes Moore’s law to the limit in both space and time. But only if it can be controlled.
They’re saying in this piece that ‘borrowing’ magnetic properties from non-interfering material wrappings does the job.
How’s that?
Nice post 2nd Div!!!