According to Tom Hardware , Vanderbilt University (Nashville, USA) engineers created a transistor using nanodiamond films. The selected material, in view of diamond durability to various influences, will ensure stable semiconductors operation in a wide temperature range and under the influence of radiation. In addition to high resistance, diamond transistor has excellent potential productivity, which, under certain conditions makes it more promising than its silicon counterparts.
Despite the high cost of materials, semiconductors made from nanodiamond films will not cost a lot to buyers. Although one carat is enough to about a billion transistors, which is not much, considering the number of semiconductors in modern processors (core Sandy Bridge includes 995 million transistors). Raw materials for nanofilms will be created out of Brown's gas and methane, that can give it a thousand times cheaper than the use of diamond jewelry. Related Products :
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