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Nanowire electronics comes of age

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Three-dimensional nanowire-like electronic devices are gaining ground over conventional planar technology. They may be the means to improve the performance of the electronic circuitry of the future.

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Figure 1: Tri-gate transistors.

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Palacios, T. Nanowire electronics comes of age. Nature 481, 152–153 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/481152a

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