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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 251 - 252 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.121

Subject Category: NEMS

NEMS: Taking another swing at computing

Mark Freeman1,2 & Wayne Hiebert2

  1. The Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G7
  2. the National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2M9.

Correspondence to: Mark Freeman1,2 e-mail: mark.freeman@ualberta.ca

Correspondence to: Wayne Hiebert2 e-mail: wayne.hiebert@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca


Could a mechanical principle familiar from the playground be the key to a new means of computation? Research on tiny gallium arsenide bridges points in that direction.

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