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Circuits/arithmetic units

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The application area of integrated circuits will be increased in the future. Scientists are still working to attach those little circuits into bank notes for getting informations about the cash flow.
In assistance of a new procedure, 250nm thin-film transistors (TFTs) composed of gold, aluminium-oxide and organic molecules will be fabricated and integraded into bank notes. This procedure is important to meet the requirements in the everyday life of a bank note.
Also the entertainment- and textile industry spend a lot of money in the research and development of new modern technologies and devices. Presently there are the first prototypes for mobile musicplayers, which are integrated and stiched into the accoutrement.
In the future, the high energy efficiency from mobile end-devices will become a big issue. Scientists try to fix the problem by using an architecture for computers, which is reversible. That means that initial state equals the final state when calculation is taken.
That technology is very interesting for scientists, who design quantum computers, but there's the rub. By using reversible computing the information must be saved all the time, so the space of memory have to be increased.

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