Also in 1998, A TEAM led by Steven Hillenius at Bell's lab, reported the construction of the smallest [then] transistor ever made. It was FET type as you know [field effect transistor]. To make the long story short, they could build a gate 61 nm wide! [the size of 180 atoms laid side by side]. The insulating layer of silicon dioxide was 1.2 nm! [three atoms wide!].
They believe that they have reached the LIMITS... and I would agree with them 100%! Energy quanta was tunneling throughout the insulator when that one was smaller than 1.2 nm. Not only that! There was a question even more concerning than just that. As the voltage applied was increased, the output current decreased... which as many of you probably know, this fact contradicts the basic functioning principles for transistors. Tunneling, ladies and gentlemen became a pain in their A...! What a shame!... isn't it? It seems to me that physicists are in a deep C...! Allow me to introduce my "stupid theory" one more time!
If we REDUCE the number of "atomic oscillators" present in the semiconducting material would be too "alien" to assume that as we increase the voltage [net energy apply to the bulk of working oscillators] there would be a point in time where we REACHED A LIMIT? WOULD IT?
This "TRAGIC" EPISODE wouldn't occur in a [macro] crystal with millions of atoms wide. The MODULATING CAPACITY when the disponibility of atoms is vast allow us to "play the smart guy" changing the conditions of the circuit. That's why we see hundreds of different types of devices [transistors and diodes] with all kind of applications... which is terrific! BUT! If we decide to explore the true world [the quantum world] we need to go with something better than "particles" and "wave functions" full with probabilities and uncertainty. There is nothing UNCERTAIN in that world, except for our stupidity... No offense!
Inside the atomic structure of future devices we have to play by their rules! But we definitely need a better understanding of the nature of the world we try to discover. We and the world around us is made up by ENERGY and little oscillators that keep transforming the same energy into other kinds. However in order to understand those "maze-looking" bands we talk about we need a better understanding of the real nature of matter and time. I have proposed a model of the atom and a theory of time that I find more reliable in the future and it's all in my previous work posting in this page.
I don't think is time to feel worry about this. I think that the moment of TRUTH is getting pretty close by now! The final realization of some of the things I've been repeating here for some time will be my final satisfaction.
My next posting will be about the so-called God's particle: The Higg's boson.
It's not going to be place here since that subject belongs to particle physics... Don't miss thatn either!
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