What's so special about semiconductors? Why was the technological revolution not possible with normal conductors?

something realted to dilating

How else do you propose interrupting the flow of current in a conductor?

>working with literal switches

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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

So if im getting this correct they mean that by using a small amount of electricity the transistor can be switched on and off, with that switch controlling a far larger amount of elecrtricity than is used to flip it on and off?

Seems like an odd way to explain it. Technically true but nevertheless a roundabout somewhat unclear explanation

it would make more sense if you had taken high-school physics

Why couldn't the industry use full conductors instead, or is that the next big secret tech jump?

They only work at very very low temperatures, at least for now.
Also they're called super conductors.

>Seems like an odd way to explain it. Technically true but nevertheless a roundabout somewhat unclear explanation
Once you understand it the explanation makes sense.
It's just like any school subject.

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>Why was the technological revolution not possible with normal conductors?

It is possible with normal conductors.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay_logic

The main problem with electromechanical switching is it can't be easily scaled down for large integrated circuits. On top of that relays can only switch on/off. There's no linear region so you can't use them as amplifiers.

Please, don't feed the troll.
He's loving it.

Because semiconductors can be made into a solid state switch called a transistor. In the simplest case you add a defined number of charges of a certain polarity to a block of semiconductor that are capable of carrying electricity through it. After wiring it up on each end you can disrupt the carrying by applying an electric field of the same polarity of the charges over some part of the top of the thing, which repels them (it's a bit more complicated than this but the idea is basically the same) and thus pinches the flow of electricity off. You can't do this with ordinary conductors because there are simply too many of these kinds of charges already in them to begin with and you need ridiculous voltages to influence enough of them. For example, you need ~10 megavolts/cm to influence the charges in 0.000000000065cm depth of copper. For comparison, the electric field which initiates lightning is ~0.03 megavolts/cm.

physics.stackexchange.com/a/289045

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>not the art of electronics

brainlet

Jow Forums is full of retards with a very surface level knowledge of the subject but they like to act like experts. They are not really qualified to answer questions like this. /sci/ suffers from the same problem as well.

/diy/ is where you wanna go. Specifically /ohm/. Someone there can answer your question in depth.

What convinces you to believe you're qualified to judge the qualifications of this board, pussybaby?

>the qualifications of this board

What qualifications, summerfriend?

Semiconductors are materials that can be made to either conduct, not conduct, or some spectrum of conductivity inbetween, based on (usually) electrical signals applied to it. Teenie tiny switches, m8. If all you have is regular full-time conductors, then you need to mechanically open a gap to turn it off....good luck with that on 14nm+++++ scales

>shifting le burden of proof
Way to show off your lack of education.

the transistor is arguably the most important invention since fire

I prefer clean water and mass farming tbqh

>claims to have qualifications
>does not show qualifications

have a good night retard. please try and post better tomorrow

Never made such a claim. Why do you keep embarrassing yourself?

Good job, you answered 0% of the question that OP asked, but you did sound smart and educated for a second.

Why did Japan lost the global leadership in semi-conductor technology to America?

>Japan lost the global leadership in semi-conductor technology to America
Is this what your government propaganda is telling you?

if they used "full conductors," they wouldn't have a switch they would just have a short. semi just means that under certain conditions, the material conducts electricity.

the whole point is that they are semi. they are only conductors when a voltage is applied. this lets you enable and disable an electrical connection at will with a very small voltage.

can you imagine if we had semi-graviton-interacting matter? matter that only had mass if you applied voltage to it, or vice versa? disable mass with an applied voltage? that's kind of how powerful semi-conductors are.