Researchers from UC San Diego have successfully built integrated circuits that can operate perfectly in 125 degrees Kelvin, about minus 234 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature as chilly that can be commercially created with liquid hydrogen. The integrated circuits are created with particles called excitons which can operate in extremely cold temperatures, as detailed by the physicists.
Researchers have a motive here to create excitons based devices which can efficiently work in room temperatures that have better of the current devices when it comes to interconnection speeds, owing to the excitons properties to be converted into light. This property gives the excitons based devices a faster and more efficient ability over the electronic devices with optical interfaces. If the UCSD researchers can work these integrated circuits with excitons to work in conditions we use our electronics, we could definitely be inching closer new type of superfast computer.
Via: ScienceDaily
