[PVRCNC] Re: [PVRC] SMT too small for you?

[Brian Alsop]

Keith,

Interesting for sure.  My alumni magazine was talking about this and 
some interesting points about carbon.

It seems that at the scale of atoms one can build carbon structures that 
are either conductors, insulators or semiconductors.

The also reported manufacturing a sheet of carbon one atom thick.  It 
looked like swiss cheese from above.

Heck this will be no problem.  Nobody tries to fix a transistor or IC.  
Just plug in a new RX "chip" and go. 
If fact, one can imagine a receiver made up of a couple hundred thousand 
of these guys with super sharp bandpass filters-- using cryogenic 
components for high Q.  "Tuning" will just electronically switch between 
them.  Great for QRSSS CW.   Ganging the output from multiple units
could permit any bandwidth desired.  Just dreaming.....

73 de Brian/K3KO

Keith Zeringue wrote:

> Knobs on the radio too small?  Having trouble with all of the surface 
> mount parts?
>
> Thats nothing if this is for real.
>
> http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~argon/nanoradio/radio.html
>
> 73
> W4KAZ
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