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Re:New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors by Koshkin on Sunday December 02, 2018 @11:01AM (#18582830)
Vacuum is a special case of an insulator. Others will conduct beyond some threshold voltage; vacuum will not. On the other hand, vacuum will conduct at any voltage as soon as free charges are injected into it.
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Re:New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors by 0db532a0 on Sunday December 02, 2018 @11:49AM (#18583063)
But electrons can still pass through perfect vacuums. Whether or not a vacuum conducts (obviously it doesn’t) is irrelevant.
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