IBM reports breakthrough in carbon nanobuizen for computer chips

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IBM has developed a technique that allows a relatively large number of transistors made of carbon nanobuizen on a wafer can be placed. This is an important step in the development of a computer chip that uses carbon nanobuizen.

The researchers from IBM, which on the technique to work, have their findings in the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology published, reports the press release. By means of the new technique, the researchers managed to more than ten thousand working transistors made of carbon nanobuizen, on a wafer. Previously, several hundred transistors maximum.

According to IBM, this is a great step in the direction of an entire computer chip based on carbon-nanobuizen, but before that, must the density be further increased. Eventually have billions of transistors on a very small surface can be placed.

Currently, transistors are made of silicon, but by switching to carbon nanobuizen can computer chips, in theory, much less be made. It would be electrons in carbon transistors are faster to move than in conventional transistors.