Discussion

Cornell Chronicle

loopback_device: Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69733-1

0xDEFACED: any hope that this could be applied to improving memory fab yields and ease some of the capacity constraints on consumer devices? asking for a friend

lovich: Less likely than just inducing more demand from the AI firms

kibibu: > At Bell Labs, Muller and fellow scientist Glen Wilk ’90, who is now vice president of technology at ASM, tried replacing silicon dioxide - the prevailing gate material, which leaked too much current at small scales – with hafnium oxide.They are naming professors like "Now That's What I Call Music" albums now?(I genuinely can't find why there's a '90 there, suspect it's a copy/paste error?)

bsder: Presumably because he is a Cornell alumnus from 1990. The article is at cornell.edu .

kibibu: Ahh makes a lot of sense

Joel_Mckay: Silicon has 23 known isotopes, and now you why it will unlikely ever be economical to reach 0 defects in a business sense.Modern chip designs do include over-provisioned features, so designers can often selectively downgrade areas that are not viable.Chenming Hu books about solar cell physics and semiconductors are quite accessible. =3