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Transistor radios tinier than a grain of sand, made using nanotechnology,
can not only tune in to the traffic report, but may end up outperforming
current silicon-based electronics, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
The researchers made the microscopic radios out of carbon nanotubes
-- tiny strands of carbon atoms -- and say in theory they could lead to
faster devices.

They overcame a series of obstacles that have defeated efforts to make
nano-radios, including getting amplification, by making their devices on
quartz wafers

"Our goal is not to make tiny radios per se, but really to develop
nanotubes as a higher-performing semiconductor," said John Rogers,
a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of
Illinois


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