LIFE SPAN OF COPPER
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Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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There some interesting work being done in artificial diamonds for use in semiconductors. One of the two big companies making artificial diamonds for the jewlery industry in the US is actually doing it to fund their diamond research work in the computer and semiconductor industry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2004/diamondlabs.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/diamonds.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2004/diamondlabs.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/diamonds.shtml
Yeah that diamond stuff is pretty nifty.
Does the small nature of semiconductors prohibit the use of some kind of composite/alloy I was at cornell recently and saw what one of the professors had been doing to test different mixtures and it was very cool.
He used ion sputterers to sputter different metals, then used an old fashioned chart printer with mercury replacing the pen to measure conductance/capacitance and other parameters throughout the entire range. After he found good spots he could simply analyze the exact mixture and replicate it. Already he had found some amazing results for making new capacitators that have much more capacitance/ or can be produced much smaller than current methods.
Does the small nature of semiconductors prohibit the use of some kind of composite/alloy I was at cornell recently and saw what one of the professors had been doing to test different mixtures and it was very cool.
He used ion sputterers to sputter different metals, then used an old fashioned chart printer with mercury replacing the pen to measure conductance/capacitance and other parameters throughout the entire range. After he found good spots he could simply analyze the exact mixture and replicate it. Already he had found some amazing results for making new capacitators that have much more capacitance/ or can be produced much smaller than current methods.