#ultrafast

« Among the new transistor’s superlative properties: (1) It can switch between positive and negative charges — essentially the ones and zeros of digital information — at very high speeds, on nanosecond time scales. (A nanosecond is a billionth of a second.); (2) It is extremely tough. After 100 billion switches it still worked with no signs of degradation; (3) The material behind the magic is only billionths of a meter thick, one of the thinnest of its kind in the world. That, in turn, could allow for much denser computer memory storage. It could also lead to much more energy-efficient transistors because the voltage required for switching scales with material thickness. »