Nanowire-Based Electronics And Optics Comes One Step Closer An
entirely new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and
electronic devices is one step closer, according to researchers
at the University of California-Berkeley. Their work, and that
of a Swedish team, is reported in the February issue of the
peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, published by the American
Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The
two groups have succeeded independently in making lattices that
they say will for the first time enable nanowires to be
constructed with otherwise incompatible materials. Such mixed
bundles are essential to making electronics and other devices on
an increasingly smaller scale. "This is a major advancement in
the field of one-dimensional nanostructure research. The impact
could be tremendous," predicts Peidong Yang, Ph.D., assistant
professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of
California and a faculty scientist in the Materials Science
Division at the Lawrence Berke