[Lowfer] [Tech] News on Transistor Devl

[Peter Barick]

The University of Illinois announces break-through development on a
509Gig transistor.
Here's a one-pager on it,

http://www.news.uiuc.edu/scitips/03/1106feng.html

They use a term, "epitaxial structure," that's unknown to me. Others?
It's used in a context of their special "bridge" contact element. Hmm?

History: In 1947 the first transistor was demonstrated at Bell Labs by
John Bardeen and Walter Brattain and directed by Wm. Shockley. Bardeen
left Bell and joined the U of I in 1951 where he later worked on
superconductivity. He received the Nobel prize twice for these efforts.

Also see for background, an interesting read,
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/miraclemo.html 

Peter