The breakneck pace of microelectronics development in the last 3 decades has relied on squeezing more and more transistors onto silicon chips. Yet, within 10 to 15 years, silicon electronics will hit its miniaturization limit, experts say.
In background is an atomic-force-microscope image of a nanotube bundle lying across relatively
large electrodes. Foreground diagram shows detail of metallic nanotubes (blue) and semiconducting nanotubes (pink) across electrodes (yellow).
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