Exploring Crystal Defect Propagation: The Future of Light-Based Computers?

[John Lutz]

I'm a coder by trade. Been coding since 1991 professionally. I have always followed
science but recently got very interested in crystals after watching the original Superman.

I firmly believe that the future of light based computers will by crystal and storage for
both of what we consider RAM and hard drive will be, instead encased in crystal.

If anyone else is interested please let me know. It fascinates me.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Welcome to PF!

 

[analogdesign]

Hi John,

Welcome, I hope you learn a lot and have some fun. Just FYI, the semiconductor crystals used to make CPU and RAM chips are the purest crystals known to humanity, and are far, far more pure than any naturally occurring crystal. You may be interested in reading an introductory text on semiconductor device physics that goes into some detail on semiconductor crystals and how they are made to be so pure. It's fascinating stuff!

Cheers!