cryotronics

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noun

electronics making use of superconductivity

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Meanings

nouncryotronics (uncountable)
  1. uncountableelectronics making use of superconductivity

    While cryotronics is, to some degree, a rather special technology, it has not been possible to show that cryogenic circuits possess, on balance, any functional advantages over circuits realizable in competitive technologies.

    1962, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, volume 22, page 229

Origin

From cryo- + -tronics.

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