Self-assembled nanowires could make chips smaller and faster April 21, 2009
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to make transistors smaller and faster. The technique uses self-assembled, self-aligned, and defect-free nanowire channels made of gallium arsenide.
In a paper to appear in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journal Electron Device Letters, U. of I. electrical and computer engineering professor Xiuling Li and graduate research assistant Seth Fortuna describe the first metal-semiconductor field-effect transistor fabricated with a self-assembled, planar gallium-arsenide nanowire channel.
Self-assembled nanowires could make chips smaller and faster
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Nanotechnology
Many of us are of the opinion that nanotechnology has still not invaded our lives. But little do we know that we are using nanotechnology even at this instant, as we read this blog. Wondering where? Well, your computer hard disks and your portable pen drives are one of the first devices which used the wonders of nanotechnology to their advantage. The great physicist Richard Feynman famously predicted that a whole bible can be engraved on the tip of an atom. And here comes the first stones of success to his prediction. Not a single bible, but millions of bible can be written on today’s hard disks purely based on nanotechnology! Here we see the power of dreams getting translated into actions!
Tech Blast: Nanotechnology