Highly Sensitive Nanowire transistor Arrays?
Recently I've been looking into http://physicsworld.com , an excellent website for figuring out the fatness of Schrodinger's Cat, recently posted about a light-weight array of nano-wires which are about as sensitive the skin. Immediately I thought, hey, are the any defining units for sensitivity or is it just a feeling. Then, obviously,I searched the internet. So guess what? There are no units and its merely a comparison. You can't say, that thing is 1000 sensons sensitive, but, what you can say is, that is 1000 times more sensitive than that leaf. So great, its a comparison, but take a second to wonder how they make the comparison, what defines it, how do they find out how sensitive a thing is? The answer is a some of you may have guessed, it's the time that the surface, may it be artificial or natural, takes to react to a certain stimuli. For example if I prodded the skin of a mouse, the time it takes to sense that and react effectively is...
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