With today's device microprocessors, electric current passes through transistors, which are essentially very
small electronic switches.
Not exact matches
«Back to around the 2000 peak,» is one comment from a senior executive of NEC Tokin Corporation, a major user of tantalum, which has peculiar properties making it the best metal for
switching electronic signals in
small devices.
«Potentially, a moving mechanical contact could be used as a way to make very good power
switches in
small electronic devices,» Li says.
Last year an international team achieved the next astonishing milestone in downsizing: They devised a way to make a single - atom transistor, the
smallest possible
electronic switch.