Much-Sought Exotic Quantum State of Matter Can Exist

[Archean]

The world economy is becoming ever more reliant on high tech electronics such as computers featuring fingernail-sized microprocessors crammed with billions of transistors. For progress to continue, for Moore's Law -- according to which the number of computer components crammed onto microchips doubles every two years, even as the size and cost of components halves -- to continue, new materials and new phenomena need to be discovered.

 

[Reynod]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110815113615.htm

The article below might be of better short term relevance to thermodynamics ... and to future semiconductor cooling:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110720103517.htm