Dot.@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoNanoscale transistors could enable more efficient electronics.news.mit.eduexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down12
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minus-squareSlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoEngineers: we can’t make transistors smaller because they wouldn’t work because of those quantum effects Different engineers: but what if we use quantum effects as the basis to make smaller transistors work
minus-squareLavenderDay3544@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThe idea of a QFET or QTFET isn’t particularly new.
Engineers: we can’t make transistors smaller because they wouldn’t work because of those quantum effects
Different engineers: but what if we use quantum effects as the basis to make smaller transistors work
The idea of a QFET or QTFET isn’t particularly new.