Moore's Law will be around for awhile thanks to NASA
Poster: smartass083
Posted on April 16, 2003 at 1:58:25 PM
NASA developed a way to wire microchips using carbon nanotubes instead of the common copper wire used today. The main problem encountered when making smaller chips is the heat generated by copper greatly increases and can damage the chip, nanotubes can solve this problem.
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One advantage of using carbon nanotube interconnects within integrated circuits is that these interconnects have the ability to conduct very high currents, more than a million amperes of current in a one square centimeter area without any deterioration, which seems to be a problem with today's copper interconnects," said Jun Li, lead scientist of the team at ARC that developed the new process.