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Applied physics: A leak of information
Pavlo Zubko1 & Jean-Marc Triscone1
Abstract
As capacitors, the ubiquitous components of electronic circuitry, get smaller, keeping them insulating is a challenge. But that's not necessarily bad news — some conductivity might be just the thing for data storage.
A general problem in the electronics industry is that the insulating materials used in the continually shrinking capacitors and transistors start to leak charge when they become too thin. This leads to large power consumption and, in the case of memory, to difficulties in storing and retrieving information.
- Pavlo Zubko and Jean-Marc Triscone are in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
Email: pavlo.zubko@unige.ch; Email: jean-marc.triscone@unige.ch
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