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This seems like something that could really catapult technology into the next level. I can't wait to see what developments come from this.
I wish that they would actually tell you how it would change modern electronics...
I had a look online and all I could find was someone's thesis on how MIM would improve solar power efficiency.
http://ecee.colorado.edu/~moddel/QEL/Papers/EliassonThesis.pdf
That is interesting but it is not electronics so I'm still non the wiser really.
I read up a little myself, from what I can tell electronics is limited by the materials we currently use for diodes - ie. silicon. The MIM removes the speed limitations of the silicon technology so electronics can get faster and more powerful. The implications are therefore huge and wide ranging, I guess we are only limited by imagination, that's how it will change things in my understanding. Pretty cool!
So it is the insulation that is the big whoop...? Not the metals on either side of it... So what is the insulation made of...? It is a mined substance?
I would hate to begin to depend on it and then the country that mines it the most withholds it from me becz we had a political dispute...ie. China and Japan.
I think it's the combination of the two different metals (one of which is coated in an oxide) and the insulator in a sandwich confirmation that is key rather than just the type of insulator, from what I can work out from reading up on it. I don't know if there has to be a particular type of insulator or if indeed any insulator will do.
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