This appears to be a wonderful thing: the ability to translate huge quantities of data from light to electricity. But what do you use it for? I readily admit to being in the learning phase of high technology, so I'm not sure what the application would be. The article mentioned using this stuff to fab processors. But how do you manage gates and traces? When it comes time to go from the CPU to the rest of the mobo, are you going to make all the other components of the same material (both for speed purposes and for compatibility)?
"Spray on" ?? <Image src="Aerosol.Can"> - Multiple layers? How would they talk to each other? I got the idea that it was a series of connected 'nodes', not pipes, so how would the 'node size' compare to a regualr fab process?.10 micron?.05 micron?
Or am I standing too close to the trees? Perhaps a new Lucent or Cisco über-router would use this stuff to better manage/move traffic on the large backbones? It isn't like you can make a transatlantic cable of this stuff, is it? What of a LAN using fibre-optic NICs? How would it be useful in that situation?
What kinds of applications might the USAF be looking to apply it in? RADAR? Again, I thought they were radio waves, not light waves. What would this material emit or receive? Perhaps on large enough munitions (a Tomohawk?), you could improve the passive guidance systems by enabling them to react faster? Will I/O systems start having trouble keeping pace?
Is it flexible? How durable is it? I read of the 'wearable' computer. Could this material help further that concept and make it viable? Or perhaps make a peice of functionality small enough that one could finally produce those high-tech mirrorshades?
I voted for Bandwidth a couple weeks ago. Now we see this amazing claim. Please, enlighten me.
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This appears to be a wonderful thing: the ability to translate huge quantities of data from light to electricity. But what do you use it for? I readily admit to being in the learning phase of high technology, so I'm not sure what the application would be. The article mentioned using this stuff to fab processors. But how do you manage gates and traces? When it comes time to go from the CPU to the rest of the mobo, are you going to make all the other components of the same material (both for speed purposes and for compatibility)?
.10 micron? .05 micron?
"Spray on" ?? <Image src="Aerosol.Can"> - Multiple layers? How would they talk to each other? I got the idea that it was a series of connected 'nodes', not pipes, so how would the 'node size' compare to a regualr fab process?
Or am I standing too close to the trees? Perhaps a new Lucent or Cisco über-router would use this stuff to better manage/move traffic on the large backbones? It isn't like you can make a transatlantic cable of this stuff, is it? What of a LAN using fibre-optic NICs? How would it be useful in that situation?
What kinds of applications might the USAF be looking to apply it in? RADAR? Again, I thought they were radio waves, not light waves. What would this material emit or receive? Perhaps on large enough munitions (a Tomohawk?), you could improve the passive guidance systems by enabling them to react faster? Will I/O systems start having trouble keeping pace?
Is it flexible? How durable is it? I read of the 'wearable' computer. Could this material help further that concept and make it viable? Or perhaps make a peice of functionality small enough that one could finally produce those high-tech mirrorshades?
I voted for Bandwidth a couple weeks ago. Now we see this amazing claim. Please, enlighten me.
CB