New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize Electronics

ScienceDaily (June 16, 2009) — Move over, silicon—it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.

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I can see this technology enhancing other breakthroughs like three dimensional nano-scale integrated circuits, Texas Instruments next generation contactless smart card chip that will be faster, and have greater memory and use less power.

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Great find! This could lead to ultra-efficient and fast computers!

If anyone isn't familiar. Bismuth is a strongly diamagnetic material. Diamagnetism which is even stronger with superconductors. Perhaps they took advantage of this property.

Bismuth has also been associated with flying saucer technology

sweet.

I hope they could use it soon, I'm so desperate to see what the future holds with technology.

Room temperature superconductors?

This is exiting indeed...

I would love to see if they couple this bismuth telluride with carbon nanotubes.

The future looks very interesting.

-Edrick

Spintronic devices have created enormous advances in microelectronics, leading to faster, instant-on start times and orders-of-magnitude increases in data storage capacity. Spintronics is short for spin transport electronics – electronic devices that use the spin of an electron to carry information.

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very interesting indeed