Graphene used to create world's thinnest light bulb

Over 130 years ago, Thomas Edison used carbon as the conducting filament in the very first commercial light-bulb. Now a team of scientists and engineers have used that very same element, in its perfectly crystalline form of graphene, to create what they claim to be the world's thinnest light-bulb. Even though just one atom thick and covering an area almost too small to see unaided, the new device is so bright that the light it produces can easily be seen with the naked eye... Continue Reading Graphene used to create world's thinnest light bulb

Section: Science

Tags:

• Lighting
• Columbia University
• Graphene
• Lightbulbs
• Seoul National University

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