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Beyond silicon: MIT demonstrates new transistor technology


December 8, 2006

MIT engineers have demonstrated a technology that could introduce an important new phase of the microelectronics revolution that has already brought us iPods, laptops and much more.

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Postdoctoral associate Dae-Hyun Kim, left, and Professor Jesús del Alamo look at a cross-section of the new transistor they have been developing. Behind them is the test equipment used to measure its characteristics. Photo / Donna Coveney

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