Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving

(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon transistors are now getting so small that they`re running up against fundamental physical limits: soon, it will be impossible to squeeze any better performance out of them.

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