Discovery brings new type of fast computers closer to reality
Monday, September 28, 2009 - 04:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Their discovery, detailed this week in the advance online issue of the journal Nature Photonics, follows the team's demonstration last summer of an integrated circuit - an assembly of transistors that is the building block for all electronic devices - capable of working at 1.5 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero. That temperature, equivalent to minus 457 degrees Fahrenheit, is not only less than the average temperature of deep space, but achievable only in special research laboratories...