From: Ross A. Finlayson (extropy@apexinternetsoftware.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 22:35:49 MST
On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 04:53 PM, Gina Miller wrote:
> NEW NANO CAPACITY
> As conventional transistors shrink in size, they lose their ability
> to amplify signals, and thus their very status as transistors. Now
> researchers have taken advantage of a proposed quantum effect to
> construct a Y-shaped, nano electronic circuit that boosts signals
> spontaneously. The unique device, described in the 25 November print
> issue of PRL, is one of just a few known designs that might lead to
> circuits of atomic proportions.
> (S. Reitzenstein et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 226804.
> Link to the paper: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/e226804
> COMPLETE Focus story at http://focus.aps.org/story/v10/st23)
>
> Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
> Nanotechnology Industries
> http://www.nanoindustries.com
> Personal: http://www.nanogirl.com
> Foresight Senior Associate http://www.foresight.org
> Extropy member http://www.extropy.org
> nanogirl@halcyon.com
> "Nanotechnology: Solutions for the future."
>
I was just reading this Greg Bear anthology "Tangents" and one of the
stories "Blood Music" posits that effect, among a "self-organizing
bio-computronium grey goo" scenario, using quantum level electro- and
magnetogravitic effects to work among the recursively monolithic
particles.
Some science fiction is hard, that's why it's not called space opera or
fantasy.
I think it's interesting that we can derive a science fiction
bibliography for our tribulous and even magical or even semi-miraculous
opportunities with technology.
Ross
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