SciShow | There's a Big Problem With Silicon. What's Next?

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Episode Title: There's a Big Problem With Silicon. What's Next?
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Description: Silicon transistors allowed computers to shrink from the size of houses to watches in a short time, but engineers are facing a problem: we've almost hit the limit on how small silicon transistors can get. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Personal interview with Dr. Eric Pop http://news.mit.edu/2012/graphene-molybdenum-disulfide-flat-materials-0823 https://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/ScIT/InformationProcessing/semicond/sc_content/semi_30.html https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/molybdenumdisulfide-2d-transistors-go-ballistic https://theconversation.com/with-silicon-pushed-to-its-limits-what-will-power-the-next-electronics-revolution-46287 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/09/moore/ https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/6/13187820/one-nanometer-transistor-berkeley-lab-moores-law https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/164049/files/NatNano%206%20135%20%282011%29%20Schwierz.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/nnano.2010.89 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602592/worlds-smallest-transistor-is-cool-but-wont-save-moores-law/ http://www.onmyphd.com/?p=mosfet.short.channel.effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=141&v=z2qzT_4sw3U http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/ucacdxq/projects/vlsi/report.pdf Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colossus_Computer,_Bletchley_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1590854.jpg#/media/File:Colossus_Computer,_Bletchley_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1590854.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Molybdenite-3D-balls.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DM_IBM_S360.jpg#/media/File:DM_IBM_S360.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_C4004.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intel_CPU_Core_i7_6700K_Skylake_perspective.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Molybdenum_disulfide_-_08.jpg


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