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Asking from a place of total ignorance, but would this impact integrated circuit capacitors as well, or only discretes?
by mikepurvis 7y ago
Asking from a place of total ignorance, but would this impact integrated circuit capacitors as well, or only discretes?
- marcosdumay 7y agoUsually, it's hard to mix materials in an integrated circuit. Adding graphene to silicon is the kind of thing that looks a lot like it can be done. But it wouldn't be cheap, so I doubt people will ever do that just for capacitors. (But I imagine everybody would jump at it if it means better transistors.)
- mikepurvis 7y agoMakes sense, thanks for the response. IC resistors are implemented as switched capacitors, but I suppose that's only in amplifiers or other analogue ICs where such a thing is relevant, and there the volume is probably not significant enough to benefit from the size-down? Anyway, still very significant to get smaller and more efficient discrete capacitors.