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I thought I remembered something about circuits of this size being infeasible due to electrons hopping around?
by b34r 10y ago
I thought I remembered something about circuits of this size being infeasible due to electrons hopping around?
- foota 10y agoSounds like that was specific to transistors based on silicon
- pjc50 10y agoThis technique is specifically about preventing that by using different materials.
- marcosdumay 10y agoThat's specific to a material. The most commonly talked limits are even specific for MOS-FETs with a few specific insulators. For alternative materials or designs, things change. Those people choose a material for exactly this property, it has a bigger resistance, but leaks less electrons. There are also designs of transistors that switch on leaking current, never becoming a classical conductor. Those have negligible leaking when off.