Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:58:06 04/21/05
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On April 21, 2005 at 14:40:23, Robin Smith wrote: >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. Right. The projection I read was a 100x increase in density.
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