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UIUC Creates World's Fastest Transistor Again
An anonymous reader writes "The University of Illinois has developed (again) the world's fastest transistor operating at over 500 GHz. They used an indium phosphide based wafer, and super-scaled dimensions. The device kind of looks like a spaceship." Milton Feng, the professor in charge of the team behind the transistor, admits that their ultimate goal is a terahertz transistor, which given their previous achievements, doesn't sound too lofty.
Sweet, now the 250 Ghz's will be totally affordable.
"During the past year, high-speed transistor records have fallen like dominoes on the Illinois campus."
January: 382
May: 452
October: 509
I'm no statistics expert but extrapolating those results I estimate they'll top out at 690 in June 2005
All you do is put two together? thats 1 terrahertz.
Why aren't people logical?
Will we all need an Asetek VapoChill to keep chips using these things cool?
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It's called a microchip.
From the article:
150 nm, 382 GHz
100 nm, 452 GHz
75 nm, 509 GHz
At their current rate of improvement, a 680GHz device will have a collector size of 0 nm. Just imagine what will happen once they manage negative sizes!
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
The University of Illinois has developed again the world's fastest transistor operating at over 500 GHz
If only they had documented the damn thing, they wouldn't have to develop it twice!
which are built from silicon and germanium, the Illinois transistors are made from indium phosphide and indium gallium arsenide.
Maybe they should call Champaign Indium Phosphide Valley.
-Seriv
(it is stupid I know)
."The steady rise in the speed of bipolar transistors has relied largely on the vertical scaling of the epitaxial layer structure to reduce the carrier transit time," said Milton Feng, the Holonyak Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois, whose team has been working on high-speed compound semiconductor transistors since 1995. "However, this comes at the cost of increasing the base-collector capacitance. To compensate for this unwanted effect, we have employed lateral scaling of both the emitter and the collector."
I mean, that's just blindingly obvious.
By all the compound words in there, I'm pretty sure this has been nicked from star trek!
Earlier today, the blazing speed of the transistor was put to the test to pull apart the makeup of the sought-after "Flaming Homer"
Prof. Frink of the University of Illinois had this to say...
"Brace yourselves gentlemen. According to the new transistor, the secret ingredient is...Love!? Who's been screwing with this thing?"
Obviously the submitter is a Dr. Who fan.
DARPA is a research arm staffed heavily by scientists, so it's perhaps a little more noble than its DoD links might suggest. The Internet is an obvious example: DARPA invented the Internet to distract computer nerds from procreation, to the benefit of future generations.
Attack its weak point for massive damage!
Tough to port Linux to a single transistor, but I'll give $5 to anyone who can.
-N
I've nothing to say here...
Oh shit. I have a test on transistors (ECE 340, Solid State Device Electronics) tonight and attend UIUC...they better fucking not test us on this... :(
> I thought they may be pissing away their money on something
> stupid and useless like bettering humanity.
You'll never better humanity by spending money on technology.
"Hey babe, my transistor swicthes at 509GHz thats GHz not MHz"
Chicks just don't appreciate fast transistors anymore.
Ah, grasshopper: when you understand that the answer is "both" and "neither," then you will be on the path to entanglement.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
Everyone knows manic-depressive electronics (think Marvin from HHGTTG) are inherently unstable.