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With the development of carbon nanotubes and graphene, scientists were given an entirely new collection of materials to work with: sheets and tubes that could be consistently made with thicknesses roughly those of individual atoms. These materials hold the promise of building electronic devices with dimensions smaller than is currently possible through any other process and with properties that can be tuned by using different starting materials.
So far, most of the attention has gone to re-creating new versions of familiar devices. But a new paper by a group of researchers in Shanghai looks into what can be done if you're not constrained by the sorts of devices we currently make in silicon. The result is a device that can perform basic logic in half the transistors silicon needs, can be switched between different logical operations using light, and can store the output of the operation in the device itself.
Small footprint transistor architecture for photoswitching logic and in situ memory (DOI: 10.1038/s41565-019-0462-6) (DX)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @12:36PM (1 child)
Pretty much the most useless answer to the original question, but the highest rated.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Wednesday May 29 2019, @03:16PM
Great example of how you ACs are a cancer: your comment gives no useful information, nor contributes in any helpful or positive way.
AC = piss on parade.
Do you have a question, or are you just so full of crap you have to dump it anywhere you find an opportunity?