World’s Thinnest Lightbulb Made With Graphene

June 16, 2015

Here is more from this incredible breakthrough:

For the first time ever, researchers have managed to produce visible light using graphene as a filament, creating the world’s tiniest light bulb.

Researchers have been struggling for decades to produce a light source small enough to fit on a silicon chip as it will help them to create super-fast computers that process light instead of electricity – and now they’ve shown that wonder-material graphene, which also happens to be incredibly thin, light and flexible, can do just that.

“We’ve created what is essentially the world’s thinnest light bulb,’ one of the research leaders, James Hone, from Columbia University in the US, said in a press release. “This new type of ‘broadband’ light emitter can be integrated into chips and will pave the way towards the realisation of atomically thin, flexible, and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications.”

We hope you like the video and we look forward to seeing this new invention used in all kinds of cool applications!

thanks to Science Alert for the great info

thanks to General Physics Lab for the pic