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First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A Circuit

Posted by timothy on from the waiting-for-productization dept.

btsdev writes "Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University have developed the first ever integrated silicon circuit with nanotube technology. According to the article on UC Berkeley's site, this brings researchers one step closer to developing memory chips with carbon nanotubes - chips that could hold approximately 10,000 times more data than those we have today."

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  1. Heat and carbon nanotubes... by MajorDick · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ummmm. There is a pretty serious problem with heat dissapation and CARBON nanotubes Like this report shows

    Isnt this going to cause a pretty serious problem in integrating nanotube technology into electronics ?

    1. Re:Heat and carbon nanotubes... by mcrbids · · Score: 5, Informative

      From TFA: Because extensive rearrangement of the carbon atoms occurs, the scientists estimate that the tubes reach temperatures of nearly 1,500 degrees Celsius.

      This doesn't happen *while* the nanotubes are at 1,500 C, the nanotubes heat up to 1,500 C as a result of the flash!

      You really *REALLY* should RTFA when chastising somebody else for not RTFA!

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  2. Just like the teracubes by superpulpsicle · · Score: 5, Informative

    In 1995, there was alot of talk about a glass cube that can store a terabyte of data. This technology was expected to be around the market by 2005. Where is it now?

    Exactly. Like 90% of the great technical innovations they either don't make it for political reasons. Or heavily delayed for an eternity. Scary part is, Doom III will probably come out after this stuff.