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Diamond-based LED sends single photons flying (arstechnica.com)
5 points by llambda on April 16, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Ok, this is cool stuff. Room temperature quantum computing, very very cool.

But for me the migration from Silicon to Carbon. This is the trend to keep an eye on. In the lab all of the things that we use silicon for we can use carbon for, and carbon is better in every way, it switches faster, it dissipates heat better, and it has lower resistance.

What I find amusing is that our machine-alien invaders might also consider themselves a carbon based life form :-) (ok its a stretch)




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