Transistors To Be 10000x Faster By Firing Dielectrics With Laser Pulses

Electronics has been ruling our lives since the past few decades and it's the 'transistor' - one of the fundamental part of the modern electronics, that has been controlling most of the electronics for a long time now. Researchers at Georgia Tech University were not too happy with the speeds at which these transistors operate and have developed a new mechanism of making them work at least 10000x faster than current speeds.



Electronics engineers know that dielectrics get damaged when strong energy fields are applied to them. Physics professors Mark Stockman & Vadym Apalkov of Georgia State in association with Ferenc Krausz from Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics have found that by bombarding the dielectrics, when given short and intense LASER pulses, start conducting electricity while not getting damaged. The researchers say that these dielectrics hold the key to faster electronics - with speeds up to 1 petahertz.

We hope the technology will mature sooner. We can't wait to have 1 petahertz phones in our pockets. What about you?

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