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Friday, November 17, 2006

Diamonds...



For Better Nanowires, Just Add Diamond from PhysOrg.com

Among the positive characteristics of diamond, such as its beauty and unsurpassed hardness, are less well known properties that make it a valuable material in the electronics industry. Now, according to two scientists at the University of California-Riverside, diamond can boast one more useful ability in that area: significantly increasing the current-carrying abilities of silicon nanowires. This means that diamond may play an important role in future nanoelectronic technologies.

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1 comment:

Justin Fox said...

Why does he spread that way?

Hell, anyone that ever read a superhero comic, watched an action cartoon from the 80s or saw a Bond film knows diamonds are great for focussing energy.

And the bigger the better.