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electron tunneling

Happy 75th Birthday to the Transistor!

Posted on December 16, 2022

by Miriam Krause Earlier this week I heard a quick piece on NPR’s Marketplace called “75 years ago, the transistor ignited the fire of modern innovation,” about how the transistor was “born” exactly 75 years …

Posted in repost, Sustainable NanoTagged computers, electron tunneling, electronics, electrons, Miriam Krause, Moore's Law, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, quantum mechanics, transistors

Are transistors getting too small? (How small is too small?)

Posted on June 27, 2019

by Diamond Jonesedited by Emily Caudill Did you know that the world’s first computers filled entire rooms? Now we can carry even more computing power than those early machines in the palm of our hands, …

Posted in Sustainable NanoTagged computers, Diamond Jones, electron tunneling, electronics, electrons, Emily Caudill, Moore's Law, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, quantum mechanics, transistors

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