U of Arizona physicists have created a new transistor type. Called “QuIET” Its materials? One molecule.
What molecule? Benzene. Right now, we have 65 nm transistors. Theoretical limit of current technology is 25 nm, at which point it would eat electricty worse than a manhatten sized city. And vaporize while doing it too! More bang for your buck.
Nah, we dont really like vaporized laptops or pcs, so, why not use molecules themselves? Using a benzene ring, attach three leads from the ring. Two would have electric potential. Normally, the two currents would add, but we’re in the quantum physics domain, where electrons are waves. And waves can cancel! Thats the “off” state. Add a third lead, and you can change the phase of the waves. If their not exact opposites, they dont cancel, and you get current on the third lead. Voila! transistor. Very hard to accomplish, since this is quantum mechanics. predicting electron flow and phases is pretty difficult eh?
If they can figure out how to practically use this tech, Stafford states that we could have computer cpus the size of an e coli bacteria pack the current high end punch. yay! :D
Get to it.

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