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> Normal transistors are using quantum effects too. Well, I mean, I think it's more like "we're well aware of quantum effects and they're parasitic". I've yet
by deepnotderp 9y ago
> Normal transistors are using quantum effects too.
Well, I mean, I think it's more like "we're well aware of quantum effects and they're parasitic". I've yet to see a production TFET or something like that which actually uses a quantum phenomenon as the operating principle of the switch.
- johntb86 9y agoIsn't the band gap a fundamentally quantum phenomenon?
- raverbashing 9y agoI'd say yes In the same way you're being supported by electromagnetic forces when you're standing or sitting on something
- posterboy 9y agobut you don't need to understand much to just physically exist. Whereas electrodynamics and certainly also quantum effects in semiconducting cristals informed the development of transistors in the last what, 50-60 years.