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Grad Student Makes Nanowires Just Three Atoms Thick
Science_afficionado (932920) writes "A Vanderbilt University graduate student, working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has discovered a way to create nanowires capable of linking transistors and other components made out of the monolayer material TMDC. His accomplishment is an important step toward creating monolayer microelectronic devices, which could be as thin and flexible as paper and extremely tough."
Where do you think the nanowire filled products are going to be built?
Bit of a bugger really, he was trying for cheese on toast.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
But who gets the patent benefits.
Where do you think the nanowire filled products are going to be built?
Texas! \o/
Where do you think the nanowire filled products are going to be built?
Texas! \o/
sure, but they'll be 3inches thick. because as you know...
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Thicker is better.
And nobody is more thick than a Texan.
Cue evidence in 3... 2... 1...
Dude! America is made in China.
and it has real promise to further the development of even tinier integrated circuits,
it will probably end up being marginalized to manufacture paper thick television monitors.
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Ernest Hemingway
Wiki has nothing on TMDC, first I ever heard of it, would it kill you guys to explain or link to what TMDC is?
Anyway Mattel would be interested in it. That company feels the waists of barbie dolls are not yet thin enough to induce self loathing and bad body self image in all the girls.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Is take a deep breath and enjoy it because if nano particle, tech, wire, and what not becomes main stream we will all have to wear expensive mask to breath or live in sealed domes.
All tiny tech of this nature is an anathema to lungs and various other body parts.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Maybe next, someone at Vanderbilt can build us the internet...
I will reserve my general snark regarding nanotechnology to highlight the fact these guys are putting the grad student up front and acknowledging that he really did all the work.
Could it be? An ethical professor? Professor Pantelides, Vanderbilt and Oak Ridge deserve a ton of credit for breaking the traditional assignment-of-credit mold here. Good job guys.
You have never been to Kansas I see. Go up there once in a blue moon and nothing beats the corn fed women there.
Lin made the tiny wires from a special family of semiconducting materials that naturally form monolayers. These materials, called transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), are made by combining the metals molybdenum or tungsten with either sulfur or selenium. The best-known member of the family is molybdenum disulfide, a common mineral that is used as a solid lubricant.
Other research groups have already created functioning transistors and flash memory gates out of TMDC materials. So the discovery of how to make wires provides the means for interconnecting these basic elements. Next to the transistors, wiring is one of the most important parts of an integrated circuit. Although today’s integrated circuits (chips) are the size of a thumbnail, they contain more than 20 miles of copper wiring.