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Stories about: miniaturization

Molecules Can Be Coerced to Conduct Electricity Miniaturizing electronics is one of the main avenues of research in the industry today, and scientists are looking to develop a variety of ways for achieving it. A group of experts in the United States has taken things down to the molecular level, where they successfully forced molecules to transport current.This was... 4 March 2011 08:29 GMT Silicon Nanowires Could Make Transistors Obsolete There is no doubt in any reasonable person's mind that the future of electronics will be entirely based on nanostructures, from wires to switches. Carbon nanotubes are one possible line of development, but their silicon-based counterparts are not far behind, as evidenced by the research conducted by IBM expert F... 1 September 2009 06:56 GMT Chips Are About to Reach Miniaturization Limits The transistor has just celebrated its sixtieth anniversary and it's been about 50 years since it was first integrated into a silicon chip. These tiny switches make a true "neuronal link" inside a processor, but judging by the rapid evolution in the chip world they tend to become useless soon.The need for more a... 18 December 2007 05:58 GMT