{"id":10608,"date":"2014-04-15T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T04:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:15:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:15:15","slug":"nanoelectronic-circuits-that-operate-more-than-10000-times-faster-than-current-microprocessors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/nanoelectronic-circuits-that-operate-more-than-10000-times-faster-than-current-microprocessors","title":{"rendered":"Nanoelectronic circuits that operate more than 10,000 times faster than current microprocessors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurweil AI<br \/> Circuits that can operate at frequencies up to 245 terahertz \u2014 tens of thousands times faster than today\u2019s state-of-the-art microprocessors \u2014 have been designed and fabricated by researchers at National University of Singapore and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).<\/p>\n<p>The new circuits can potentially be used to construct ultra-fast computers or single-molecule detectors in the future, and open up new possibilities in nanoelectronic devices. For example, by changing the molecules in the molecular electronic device, the frequency of the circuits can be altered over hundreds of terahertz.<\/p>\n<p>The invention uses a new physical process called \u201cquantum plasmonic tunneling.\u201d Plasmons are collective, ultra-fast oscillations of electrons that can be manipulated by light at the nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/nanoelectronic-circuits-that-operate-more-than-10000-times-faster-than-current-microprocessors\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurweil AI Circuits that can operate at frequencies up to 245 terahertz \u2014 tens of thousands times faster than today\u2019s state-of-the-art microprocessors \u2014 have been designed and fabricated by researchers at National University of Singapore and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). The new circuits can potentially be used to construct ultra-fast computers or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47142,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions\/47142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}