Nanowire

As components of electronic devices get ever smaller, wires connecting those components must also shrink in proportion. At the micron to nanometer scale, where devices are now being built, the wave nature of matter is becoming critical. This may be an advantage or it may be a problem. Making and understanding nanowires is certainly a challenge. Real nanowires have imperfections.

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Image credit: Eric J. Heller, Harvard University