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Learned today that electronic components can’t get thinner than around a nanometer because below that electrons, due to quantum mechanics, just end up passing through barriers
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Imagining an electron Kool-Aid Manning it through the wall of a capacitor and laughing
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chip manufacturers need to embrace ruffles technology to prevent tunneling. Or perhaps the Pringles hyperbolic paraboloid offers a solution? The answer lies in starches, not silicon
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Sometimes it's even used intentionally (and just in semiconductors!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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