Nanotubes shake up computing

• Autores: Jacob Aron
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2936, 2013, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Computing, like life, may soon be carbon-based. A functioning computer has been built from carbon nanotubes--complete with its own operating system and software. It is a simple device, made of only 178 transistors compared with the billions in today's silicon computers. And it is not the first time a computer has been made from something other than silicon. But given the long-touted potential benefits of carbon nanotubes over silicon, it's a step that could spark a major revolution in computing, akin to the switch from vacuum tubes to silicon around 50 years ago. The computer also represents a victory for much-hyped carbon nanotube transistors, created in 1998 by Cees Dekker and his group at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.