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UI building a better transistor

By Greg Kline
Saturday, November 13, 2004 2:00 PM CDT

The fellows who brought you the light-emitting transistor, not to mention the light-emitting diode and the world's fastest transistor, have gone one better.

The laser-emitting transistor, to be highlighted Monday in the journal Applied Physics Letters, might end up at the center of integrated circuits – computer chips – for the next 50 years, said University of Illinois Professor Milton Feng, one of its inventors.

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