Author: Robin Smith
Date: 11:40:23 04/21/05
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On April 21, 2005 at 13:25:35, Dann Corbit wrote: >There is an interesting article in April's CPU magazine on SETs (Single Electon >Transistors). Apparently, many of the problems have already been worked out and >TI has put forth a bunch of patents on them. "Single Electon Transistors" are not in fact made out of a single electron. They will likely allow significant shrinking of transistor sizes, but no-one is suggesting that they ever will be anywhere near as small as a single electron, or even as small as a single atom. In many respects SETs are not to distant from existing CMOS transistors, except that they move single electrons to do the switching, indtead of large numbers of electrons. There will still need to be relatively large supporting structures to control the electrons movement.
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