The end of the road for silicon?

Max Schulz ()
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Max Schulz: Max Schulz is at the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Nature, 1999, vol. 399, issue 6738, 729-730

Abstract: Computer chips continue to shrink. But the discovery that a layer of silicon dioxide must be at least four to five atoms thick to function as an insulator suggests that silicon-based microchips will reach the physical limits of miniaturization early next century.

Date: 1999
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