Nanowires made of 'strained silicon' show how to keep increases in computer power coming

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 10:56 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers keep getting more powerful because silicon transistors keep getting smaller. But that miniaturization can't continue much further without a change to the transistors' design, which has remained more or less the same for 40 years.

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