Vacuum tubes’ new image: Too small to see

Experimental versions of vacuum tubes now rival minuscule semiconductor devices in size and are expected to outperform those devices under intense radiation and at high temperatures.

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Haroon Ahmed
University of Cambridge
Cavendish Laboratory
Microelectronics Research Centre
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Akintunde I. Akinwande
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Microsystems Technology Laboratories
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Ivor Brodie
SRI International
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Alexander Driskill-Smith
University of Cambridge
Cavendish Laboratory
Microelectronics Research Centre
Madingley Road
Cambridge CB3 0HE
United Kingdom

Capp Spindt
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 19, November 6, 1999, p. 292. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.