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Nashbar
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Catalysis]
#5622877 - 05/12/06 09:12 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm a material engineer.
For the 21th century, I choose yttrium.
I've made some real neat optical ceramics with Y2O3, but the important application for the future might be superconductors made from YBCuO ceramics.
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inoculatedGreif
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Nashbar]
#5623138 - 05/12/06 10:29 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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what have you made? and do you have a pic or somthing of what y203 is.
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Seuss
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: inoculatedGreif]
#5623754 - 05/13/06 03:16 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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> The question is, what is going to replace silicon?
Light. (sort of) Opitical computing seems to be the next natural progression of silicon based computing technology. I know everybody is talking about quantum computers, but my guess is that optical based processing will occur first.
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Seuss]
#5623798 - 05/13/06 03:52 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Xenon, because I liked the videogame.
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trendal
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Seuss]
#5625121 - 05/13/06 04:02 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Seuss said: > The question is, what is going to replace silicon?
Light. (sort of) Opitical computing seems to be the next natural progression of silicon based computing technology. I know everybody is talking about quantum computers, but my guess is that optical based processing will occur first.
I read in SciAm a few months back that someone had managed to create a FULLY optical switch - which is obviously the first (and IMHO the most important) step to creating a fully optical processor.
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Catalysis]
#5626821 - 05/13/06 11:05 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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What about silicon though?
The question is, what is going to replace silicon?
I take it that silicon isn't going to be all that useful once we can't pack any more transistors together/make them smaller and we switch over to quantum computing?
Is that what was kind of implied by this thread, or am I retard who knows nothing about physics/computer science?
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Catalysis]
#5645625 - 05/18/06 09:16 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Catalysis said:
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What about silicon though?
The question is, what is going to replace silicon?
IBM did work with carbon nanotubes in 2001 as a silicon replacement. I don't really know what they've done since then.
IBM Scientists Develop Breakthrough Transistor Technology with Carbon Nanotubes
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zappaisgod
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Toboggan]
#5647208 - 05/18/06 06:06 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Unobtanium. Can't get it anymore but we sure will wish we could.
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Seuss
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Nashbar]
#5649181 - 05/19/06 05:51 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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> I'm a material engineer.
Cool, another mud jock! I did a little work with ceramics as an undergrad measuring seabeck coefficients of different ceramics at various temperatures. I never actually mixed the ceramics, but was around the materials research building quite a lot.
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Re: Which atom will define the 21th century? [Re: Asante]
#5651457 - 05/19/06 08:11 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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"Which atom will define the 21th century?"
uhhhh... all of them?
@ this discussion.
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