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Branched Nanotubes Offer Smaller Transistors

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-a-good-size dept.

Designadrug writes "Tiny tubes of carbon, crafted into the shape of a Y, could revolutionize the computer industry, suggests new research. The work has shown that Y-shaped carbon nanotubes are easily made and act as remarkably efficient electronic transistors - but the nanotransistors are just a few hundred millionths of a meter in size -roughly 100 times smaller than the components used in today's microprocessors."

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if I have a really, really powerful microscope?

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  2. And the best part? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Soon we'll have cell phones we can lose *100 times* as fast!

  3. Re:Moore's Law. by slapout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, you could have your own law:

    Quebec's law: "Each time some expert's saying that Moore's Law is about to hit a barrier,
    there is something going on like those promising nanotubes."

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  4. Coming Soon: Time Travel by DaSpudMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like a Flux Capacitor to me.

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  5. Re:Moore's Law. by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny
    Hey, you could have your own law: Quebec's law: "Each time some expert's saying that Moore's Law is about to hit a barrier, there is something going on like those promising nanotubes."
    Sorta like Slapout's Corollary: "Anytime something can go wrong, no matter how likely, something will eventually come along and make it actually work, defying all odds and logic."

    i think metamoderation works something like that...

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  6. Nano Tubes by devphaeton · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but i still bet nothing switches data as warmly as vacuum tubes...... /me snickers, waits for it.

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  7. Re:Laws of physics by hobbesx · · Score: 2, Funny
    I guess I'm going to have to go disappoint all those quantum computation researchers


    Why do I get the feeling that if you can find them, you won't be able to affect their momentum?

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  8. Robert Frost by threaded · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.

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  9. Meanwhile by Julian+Morrison · · Score: 3, Funny

    Senior figures in the Bush administration were in talks with scientists, to see if a way could be found to fit these "naked" transistors with trousers.