A British company has produced a "strange, alien" material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record. To stare at the "super black" coating made of carbon nanotubes - each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair - is an odd experience.
"No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
I will keep waiting for my darkness-emitting diodes...
Amazing engineering feat: 1 nm transistor. Besides we can argue Moore law is still OK, dennard scaling is gone and with it the performance boost, as alluded subtly.
Link article: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6308/99.full