| ▲ | malfist an hour ago | |
Okay? Aren't the semiconductors we use today room temperature? I certainly don't use helium to cool my phone. I don't see any claims that this is better than the current silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors that we use. And the use of "room temperature" seems a deliberate attempt to misconstrue this with superconductors | ||
| ▲ | drdeca 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
1) the “room temperature” bit did cause me to initially misread it in the way you describe, so you may be right about that. 2) it is specifically saying it is a magnetic semiconductor. The Wikipedia article on the topic says “ To date, GaMnAs remains the only semiconductor material with robust coexistence of ferromagnetism persisting up to rather high Curie temperatures around 100–200 K.” , so this would be something new. (The silicon chips in your smartphone are not ferromagnetic.) | ||
| ▲ | maipen 9 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Any sort of alternative discovery, even though it may be inferior, is a great achievement made by AI; Meaning that better discoveries are possible too. | ||