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http://www.sciencealert.com/vintage-vacuum-tube-tech-could-take-electronics-and-solar-panels-to-the-next-level
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"The main advantage new nanoscale vacuum tubes have over semiconductor-based transistors is that they carry currents through air, rather than a solid material, and could be be much faster as a result."
That's too funny.
It's a vacuum tube, not a air tube.
Tre'
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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Tre'
Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
NASA Audiophiles. Wow! That's a new twist. One can't help wondering how NASA feels about wire directionality.
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According to the article the devices conduct current through the air. Therefore these are not vacuum devices, nano or otherwise,as there ain't no vacuum.
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I noticed that too. Reading the piece, watching the video and then a published journal article implies a vacuum will work best. So for now the vacuum tube is the inspiration and a nano vacuum the ultimate goal.
Cheers!
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
Exactly, the vacuum tube and how it functions is the inspiration. Had this been an article written in British English the word "valve" would have been used which has no implication of any necessity for a vacuum, so nano vacuum tube is a bit of a semantic mis-direction. In fact the development team call it a " Photo Emission Based Device".
And given the audiophile mentality, even if these devices are developed and used in audio gear there will be a decades long argument, now probably a 3 way one, between transistors(and what type of transistors), these devices and regular tubes(and triode vs pentode and/or push/pull vs single ended). As long as decisions are made subjectively by individuals there will be no final resolution.
The individual decision is the final resolution. That's what it's all comes down to. T456
" And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall" Robert Allen Zimmerman
Seems a very exciting field to work in. Of course, it must be twenty years away from practical application.
Only if these devices sound better than ss devices
Alan
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