Engineers perfecting carbon nanotubes for highly energy-efficient computing
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 13:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Carbon nanotubes represent a significant departure from traditional silicon technologies and offer a promising path to solving the challenge of energy efficiency in computer circuits, but they aren't without challenges. Now, engineers have found ways around the challenges to produce the first full-wafer digital logic structures based on carbon nanotubes.