Carbon Nanotubes can help to keep Moore’s Law going.
IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) surprised with a major breakthrough for chips. The use of carbon nanotubes in silicon transistors is likely enabling a leap in chip technology.
I4U: Scientists at IBM demonstrated a new way to shrink transistor contacts without reducing performance of carbon nanotube devices, opening a pathway to dramatically faster, smaller and more powerful computer chips beyond the capabilities of traditional semiconductors.
IBM solution overcomes a major problem that silicon and any semiconductor transistor technologies face when scaling down. In any transistor, two things scale: the channel and its two contacts. READ MORE HERE: