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by baja_blast 1621 days ago
How is explaining/figuring out how quantum physics effects semiconductors "stealing credit"? Learning about how quantum tunneling effects impact super small transistors is extremely useful since chip designers can use this info to design chips that mitigate this effect as we scale down.

Also in the material sciences metamaterials have special properties precisely because of how the molecular structure manipulates quantum forces. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09939-8