Study: Error prevention, rather than correction, best for future of nanoelectronic devices
Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 06:00
in Physics & Chemistry
The move toward smarter, lighter and more powerful electronics, computers and smartphones depends on whether transistor circuits, the building blocks of such devices, can process large amounts of information. As these circuits get faster and smaller, the number of errors they generate -- arising from heat dissipation, noise and structural disorder -- in the physical information they process increases, which can impede development.