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So rather than electrons flowing through regular transistors you would have photons flowing through phototransistors? Wouldn't one problem be casting light rays
by bjourne 1y ago
So rather than electrons flowing through regular transistors you would have photons flowing through phototransistors? Wouldn't one problem be casting light rays that with widths in the nano or picometer range?
- IAmBroom 1y agoIt's not clear at all what path the photons are taking. I read it at first as them travelling as a standing wave, blocking the electrons until the transistor "flips". If the path of the photons is indeed transverse to the flow of charge, millions of transistors could share a single wavefront.
- AlienRobot 1y agoI used to think electrons flow through circuits, then I learned they actually move extremely slowly, so when you flip a switch there is no way an electron made it all the way to the lamp and back. So now I assume the energy of an electron is transferred to the rest through the electromagnetic field in the circuit or something like that? Honestly, I don't have the slightest idea how any of this works and what is true and what is false anymore. It's not really relevant to computers and yet it's all very fascinating.