A team of physicists at the Netherlands based Philips Research Laboratories have developed a small computer circuit that builds itself! The team led by Dago de Leeuw, a physicist himself used an organic molecule quinquethiophene to a carbon atom chain with a silicon group attached to the end. Later, they immersed the circuit boards with electrodes into a solution containing these molecules.
According to Hagen Klauk, an electrical engineer from the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, this latest technology is still in is infancy and needs a lot of fine-tuning before going "live". Additionally, in its present avatar, it offers no higher performance improvement over existing circuits. The next step to complement this new technique is to find a way to develop self-assembling electrodes. As for when you can get a hands-on the first "self assembled" computer, you've got to wait for a long time.
Via:ITexaminer
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