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Building Complex Circuits With Carbon Nanotubes

Posted by Soulskill on from the series-of-nanotubes dept.

Lorien_the_first_one writes "MIT's Technology Review reports that carbon nanotubes are being used to fabricate complex circuits. From the article, 'The first three-dimensional carbon nanotube circuits, made by researchers at Stanford University, could be an important step in making nanotube computers that could be faster and use less power than today's silicon chips. Such a computer is still at least 10 years off, but the Stanford work shows it is possible to make stacked circuits using carbon nanotubes. Stacked circuits cram more processing power in a given area, and also do a better job dissipating waste heat.'"

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  1. Apples products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Sometimes I think i'm bi-curious.

    Although I've never actually bought an apple product, I can't completely rule it out, if the right product comes along.

  2. Re:Heat dissipation by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 2, Funny

    > How do stacked circuits do a better job of dissipating heat...

    They don't, nor does the article claim that they do.

    Darn, where's that "-1: did not read as far as the last line of the summary" moderation option when I need it???

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  3. Will this make? by ModernGeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will this make "the Internet is a series of tubes" true?

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  4. Re:Heat dissipation by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's in the last line of the moderators' guidelines ...

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