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Them clever brass rats are at it again:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/new-quantum-breakthrough-could-lead-super-efficient-electronics
On 28/09/2025 10:45 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:
Them clever brass rats are at it again:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/new-quantum-breakthrough-could-lead-super-efficient-electronics
The woods are full of people who think that they have had a clever idea.
Some of them are clever enough to get them published in the peer-reviewed literature, as has happened in this case.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02617-7
Trust Cursitor Doom to point us at the Zero-Hedge version of the story.
The path from there to something we can buy off the shelf from Mouser is remarkably long, if it exists. It mostly doesn't.
Can anybody remember tunnel diodes - which you could buy off the shelf, for a while?
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
"Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in message news:10bbofh$2ff4o$1@dont-email.me...
On 28/09/2025 10:45 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:
Them clever brass rats are at it again:
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/new-quantum-breakthrough-could-lead-super-efficient-electronics
The woods are full of people who think that they have had a clever idea.
Some of them are clever enough to get them published in the peer-reviewed literature, as has happened in this case.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02617-7
Trust Cursitor Doom to point us at the Zero-Hedge version of the story.
The path from there to something we can buy off the shelf from Mouser is remarkably long, if it exists. It mostly doesn't.
Can anybody remember tunnel diodes - which you could buy off the shelf, for a while?
Sure. But I've never used one. >https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Wireless-World/60s/Wireless-World-1965-03.pdf
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Bill Sloman, Sydney