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> Elusive 18-atom ‘cyclocarbon’ could be a step towards molecule-scale transistors. Can someone 'in the know' on semiconductor device fabrication expand on thi
by dlivingston 7y ago
> Elusive 18-atom ‘cyclocarbon’ could be a step towards molecule-scale transistors.
Can someone 'in the know' on semiconductor device fabrication expand on this more?
- mjevans 7y agoNDAs being what they are, someone in the industry might be able to point us to public sources that hint in the correct direction... it seems risky otherwise.
- Veedrac 7y agoThis just seems like pondering, not anything concrete. I doubt there's much to expand on.
- analog31 7y agoThe press release always mentions the cool new technology du jour as a possible spinoff of the discovery. Today, it's transistors. When the Superconducting Super Collider was proposed, the newspapers said that research done at the SSC would lead to breakthroughs in computer graphics and flat panel displays.
- im3w1l 7y agoI'm not in the know at all. But maybe they base it on this > Initial studies of the properties of the molecule, called a cyclocarbon, suggest that it acts as a semiconductor.