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▲Gallium oxide electronics withstand extreme colddiscovery.kaust.edu.sa
61 points by giuliomagnifico 2 days ago | 6 comments
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biggerben 6 hours ago [-]
Original paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c06155?re...

The scale is micrometer sizes… I wonder what the limits for shrinking are?

jpecar 2 hours ago [-]
Cool (literally ;)

Now they just need to find something that will work on Venus.

colechristensen 8 minutes ago [-]
A New Computer Chip Could Finally Withstand The Hellscape of Venus [1]

High-temperature memristors enabled by interfacial engineering [2]

1. https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-computer-chip-could-final...

2. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb9934

Recent news :) "operated reliably up to 700 °C"

throw0101c 2 hours ago [-]
Is there any irony in cold research coming out of Saudi Arabia?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#Geography

throw0101c 2 hours ago [-]
Meta: the HN code should perhaps be tweaked so that *.sa submissions can handle three-level domains, as the 'base' for anything seems to be two-level (like X.uk):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.sa#Second-level_domains

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu_(second-level_domain)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)

cwillu 10 minutes ago [-]
Email hn@ycombinator.com
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