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Science Friday > Archives > 2003 > May
> May 23, 2003:
Hour One: Future
Electronics
Most computers today rely on silicon chips to crunch their numbers
-- but what will the computers of tomorrow use? Researchers are hard
at work looking for advances in physics and materials science that
will allow the use of other materials that can perform at levels far
beyond those possible with silicon chips. Some of the possibilities
include tiny transistors based on carbon nanotubes, molecules that
can self-assemble into complex surfaces, and devices using organic
semiconductors.
In this hour of Science Friday, we'll take a look at the physics
and materials science needed to bring computing on beyond silicon.
We'll hear about technologies in development, and talk about the work
needed to bring laboratory phenomena onto the desktop. Plus, we'll
try to take a look at a transparent transistor.
Call in with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255, and
share your opinions online in our Listeners' Lounge (registration required).
Guests:
Stanley Williams
Director, Quantum Science
Research
HP Labs
Palo Alto, California
Thomas Theis
Director, Physical Science
Research
IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, New York
John Wager
Professor, School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
National
Nanotechnology Initiative
Nanodot:
News and Discussion of Emerging Technologies
Small
Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
Nanotech
Planet - Research: Planning for the Day When Silicon Rules No More
Technology
Review: Computing After Silicon
Nanotubes
Forbes.com:
Tiny Triumphs At Hewlett-Packard
TechTV
| IBM Advances Nanotech
Wired
News: Big Patent on a Molecular Scale
EE
Times - IBM ace has nanotech memory in mind
AAAS
- 2001 Annual Meeting - San Francisco, CA - Nanotechnology: ...
This segment produced by Charles
Bergquist
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