Nano-thin wire invention
Source: Science Magazine, The University of New South Wales Sydney, Canberra, Australia
Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at the University of New South Wales and the University of Melbourne, both institutions in Australia and Purdue University in the U.S. all worked together on a very interesting revolutionary study.
The study conducted by a group of physicists mentioned at the institutions above, shows how was invented the world’s narrowest conducting silicon wire. The wire is 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – with the same capacity to conduct electricity as a traditional copper wire.[1] The same study proved that the wires maintain low capacity for resistance despite being 20 times thinner than conventional copper wires used on microprocessors.
This new invention is a step forward to connect with the world’s first quantum computer[2], which is about to built. Without wire at the same small scale to connect them, computing might not be possible.
Even if might sound futuristic, we’re close to the edge of the microelectronics industry, where it will work with silicon based quantum computers in which atoms will be the units of computation.
The development of future quantum computers capable of multiplying the amount processing power of modern computers, is hoping to be in the benefit of all, but first to governments and multinational corporations, only because of its high cost of acquisition. With a powerful computer all corporations including all Mexico Corporation will be interconnected, and all kind of information will be processed in a few seconds, raising the efficiency and productivity of all processes of a chain network.
[1] The study shows how it works for this wire, made by precisely placing chains of phosphorus atoms within a silicon crystal, which has been proven to have excellent electrical conductivity.
[2] “Quantum computer” is defined as “superfast machines capable of processing enormous amounts of data in just a few seconds: a series of calculation that would take years, even decades, in current computers”.
