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Silicon down to the wire

Microchip-makers are starting to look beyond silicon, and what they see, reports Colin Macilwain, is a semiconductor industry of a very different complexion — but not for some time yet.

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Silicon down to the wire. Nature 436, 22–23 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436022a

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