This enabled circuit operation below 3 V with an operating frequency of up to 25 kHz, which was constrained by parasitic capacitances
I would guess process improvements would help a lot towards lowering those parasitics. So I wouldn't take this initial attempt as a guide for ultimate speed.
Since this is 2D materials, a capacitor is a dielectric sandwiched by two conductors and capacitance scales linearly with area, I would assume just scaling things down would help immensely with parasitic capacitance. Changing materials or process could also change the dielectric constant which also affects the capacitance linearly.
Paper is sadly not open access, so I can't check if they mention this or have done some theoretical peak calculations or something. Would indeed be interesting to know.
Molybdenum and tungsten both have melting point much higher than silicon, Maybe these circuits could be a good candidate for Venus rovers?
kxndnddn 1 hours ago [-]
I don't see how that would be relevant since the melting temperature of Silicon is already _significantly_ higher than temperatures on Venus can reach outside of reentry
numpad0 16 hours ago [-]
> molybdenum disulfide for n-type transistors and tungsten diselenide for p-type transistors
Isn't this rather unusual?
NegativeK 16 hours ago [-]
Yes? But it’s been in research for a decade or two, based on a quick search.
It’s confusing to me because moly d is a very common lubricant, even for home uses.
m-watson 13 minutes ago [-]
Something that is nice with MoS2 and the others are transition metal dichalcogenides and have some beneficial physical properties like a natural electronic bandgap, unlike silicon.
avmich 9 hours ago [-]
Isn't it a good lubricant because it's easily split into 2D layers?
RayfromBoston 9 hours ago [-]
I wonder how this compares in speed and capabilities to photonic computers
ConradKilroy 9 hours ago [-]
I was wondering that too!
znpy 5 hours ago [-]
Isn’t tungsten much much more expensive than silicon and harder to work with?
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IsTom 5 hours ago [-]
Does its price really matter for amounts used in chips?
Razengan 18 hours ago [-]
A small step towards Sophons
lowwave 17 hours ago [-]
Well with all the sabre-rattling by Kratsios on space time control, Sophons is not that far fetched.
9dev 17 hours ago [-]
Well—I, for one, welcome our new Trisolaran overlords!
yodon 19 hours ago [-]
WTF is up with that illustration at the top of the article?
DavidSJ 17 hours ago [-]
Some attempt to visually represent molybdenum disulfide and tungsten diselenide with the keys of a QWERTY keyboard.
mjmas 14 hours ago [-]
Which if it was done properly would have WSe2 and MoS2 rather than seemingly random keys
close04 7 hours ago [-]
It shows just the symbols of the elements (W, Se, Mo) and the number 2, not the compounds. The "W", "S", "M", and "2" characters are in the correct place on a QWERTY keyboard, and they appended the necessary additional characters to complete the symbols as needed, even if the "e" in Se and "o" in Mo aren't in the correct spot on the layout.
gfody 18 hours ago [-]
someone tries to explain cmos to the graphics dept
adastra22 17 hours ago [-]
To an AI prompt more likely.
bobmcnamara 12 hours ago [-]
If the frame is made of atoms what are the keys and display made out of? Quarks?
a3w 7 hours ago [-]
Yupp, I stopped reading and closed the browser tab when I saw that. Then reconsidered, to find the original source.
TacticalCoder 16 hours ago [-]
AI but it's kinda cool. Computers books in the old days used to have crazy representations of computers and all kinds of stuff. I don't mind this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer
ie: https://sam.zeloof.xyz/category/semiconductor/
Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1493-8
How high could this technique go?
This enabled circuit operation below 3 V with an operating frequency of up to 25 kHz, which was constrained by parasitic capacitances
I would guess process improvements would help a lot towards lowering those parasitics. So I wouldn't take this initial attempt as a guide for ultimate speed.
Since this is 2D materials, a capacitor is a dielectric sandwiched by two conductors and capacitance scales linearly with area, I would assume just scaling things down would help immensely with parasitic capacitance. Changing materials or process could also change the dielectric constant which also affects the capacitance linearly.
Paper is sadly not open access, so I can't check if they mention this or have done some theoretical peak calculations or something. Would indeed be interesting to know.
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08963-7
It’s confusing to me because moly d is a very common lubricant, even for home uses.