Close to 10,000 times faster laser powered transistors coming soon

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Soon enough there will new generation of transistors marking a lifeline of all modern electronics. The transistors will be powered by laser pulses and are 10,000 faster than present ones.

Scientists led by Georgia State University and Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics discovered that when dielectrics were given very short and intense laser pulses, they start conducting electricity while remaining undamaged.

Dielectric devices hold promise to allow for much faster computing than possible today with semiconductors. Such a device can work at 1 petahertz, while the processor of today's computer runs slightly faster than at 3 gigahertz.

This will fundamentally change the behaviour of most systems with the rate at which the new transistors conduct.








ref: indianexpress