Scientists Grow Atomically Thin Transistors and Circuits

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Scientists Grow Atomically Thin Transistors and Circuits
electronics, graphene, materials, nanoscale, science, technology

In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies—and possibly paper-thin gadgets —scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits that are only a few atoms thick. What’s more,...

Utterly amazing!

 

[gipper]

If only we could get rid of the big government you love, then technology would take off.

 

[IsaacNewton]

Scientists Grow Atomically Thin Transistors and Circuits
electronics, graphene, materials, nanoscale, science, technology

In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies—and possibly paper-thin gadgets —scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits that are only a few atoms thick. What’s more,...

Utterly amazing!

The main problem with computers is the size of the circuits, though very small, still produce large amounts of heat as electrons pass along the circuit. Similar to how the power cord of various things gets warm when in use. In a pc this heat causes instability of the circuit which limits how close together the circuits or 'wiring' can be. If they can make circuits on an atomic scale computers will take a galactic leap as far as speed and capacity. Home computers will be able to render something like the CGI T-rex in Jurassic Park in real time. True to real life graphics will become almost instantly possible and home computers will possibly have near Deep Blue computing capacity.

In the words of Samuel L Jackson in Jurassic Park, "hang on to your butts".

 

[SixFoot]

The main problem with computers is the size of the circuits, though very small, still produce large amounts of heat as electrons pass along the circuit. Similar to how the power cord of various things gets warm when in use. In a pc this heat causes instability of the circuit which limits how close together the circuits or 'wiring' can be. If they can make circuits on an atomic scale computers will take a galactic leap as far as speed and capacity. Home computers will be able to render something like the CGI T-rex in Jurassic Park in real time. True to real life graphics will become almost instantly possible and home computers will possibly have near Deep Blue computing capacity.

In the words of Samuel L Jackson in Jurassic Park, "hang on to your butts".

Would they measure up against quantum computers for a profitable amount of time, if at all?

 

[IsaacNewton]

The main problem with computers is the size of the circuits, though very small, still produce large amounts of heat as electrons pass along the circuit. Similar to how the power cord of various things gets warm when in use. In a pc this heat causes instability of the circuit which limits how close together the circuits or 'wiring' can be. If they can make circuits on an atomic scale computers will take a galactic leap as far as speed and capacity. Home computers will be able to render something like the CGI T-rex in Jurassic Park in real time. True to real life graphics will become almost instantly possible and home computers will possibly have near Deep Blue computing capacity.

In the words of Samuel L Jackson in Jurassic Park, "hang on to your butts".

Would they measure up against quantum computers for a profitable amount of time, if at all?

The size of circuits (or wiring paths) concerns the amount of heat that is generated along each path. If a quantum computer is sending electrical current along each path more often as it isn't limited to the binary 1 or 0 then more electrons are flowing along each path and more heat would be generated. It all depends on the number of electrons flowing through the wire, or transistor/electron gate. I think currently when a transistor opens or closes a circuit about 500,000 electrons flow across the closed switch. You can imagine if this number could be brought down to a few atoms and the wiring reduced to a few atoms across.

I'm not an expert on either of these things but I think we are talking about two different things re quantum computing and small circuits or atomic level wiring (nano wiring). Related yes.