Thermal transistors refrigerate one electron at a time and
physicists plan to compute with heat
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Thermal transistors refrigerate one electron at a time and
physicists plan to compute with heat
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By 'tuning the gate voltage properly and letting only one electron go through the device at a time' may also help us produce medical devices in line with SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography).
Since 'entropy' always rises, we have to 'pump' energy from outside to make phonons work like a diode or a transistor. Obviously, conventional transistors also had a 'quiescent current'.
On the whole, a very wholesome discovery indeed.
Posted by Amiya Sarkar | March 17, 2008 7:24 AM
Posted on March 17, 2008 07:24