Smaller Chips May Depend on Vacuum Tube Technology
June 05, 2016
A recent New York Times article featured Caltech alumnus, Gordon Moore (PhD ’54), and the research of Professor Axel Scherer on ultrasmall vacuum tube as a candidate to replace the transistor. [Read the article]
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Trity Pourbahrami
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