Posted on 03/24/2008 12:27:09 PM PDT by Red Badger
Next libs will be decrying our computers for leaving itty bitty carbon footprints all over the internet!
how much does it cost?
Great! That gives us another five years before we hit the limits of computing speed.
nice.
Finally, they can be contained!
Ooh! you are old!.............
Book mark to read after work — to see if this means another pending breakthrough in chip speed or storage capacity.
This is about 35 percent less than the resistivity of copper, the lowest resistivity material known at room temperature.
I believe this is instead true
Pure silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of all metals, and possesses the lowest contact resistance.
Silver is the lowest resistance conductor at room temp.... a bit expensive for wiring a house though.
This is why silver wire is used in place of copper in the small coils used to create massive magnetic pulses when large value capacitors are dumped into them.
Tell me Mho............
I'm a chip integration engineer - the guy responsible for gluing all the blocks of the chip together with power, clock, and signal wiring. I'd certainly like to see if this material can be grown on top of SiO2, patterned, and have inter-layer vias connected to it. And see how much current it can carry before breaking down.
Yes, silver(Ag)has a higher conductance value. My EE father worked on electrical ship systems in WWII. Copper was in such short supply at one point that they used silver for buss bars on a french ship they were building. Also, during the manhatten project they were short on copper so they requested silver from the treasury dept, they laughed at them. After a call to the White House, treasury called back an hour later : how much do you need, and where do you want it?
“But will it run Vista?”
I worked with a guy back in the 60’s who told me they took all the silver the US had in Fort Knox and various mints and took it to Alabama. He worked on a huge magnetic seperator for producing Uranium isotopes. It worked but then gas diffusion worked better, so they took all the silver and remelted it. Put it back where it came from. That was his entire war experience. Was sworn to tell no one but by the 60’s no one cared anymore.
Five dollars
Conductivity in megasiemens per meter, at room temperature:
Silver 63
Copper 58 or 59
Gold 45
Aluminum 37
Platinum 9.5
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