But then there is another difficulty: making the components exactly the right size is even more crucial for a quantum-effect device than for a regular transistor.
That row had a knock-on effect on a bipartisan effort to craft an energy and climate-change bill as Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator, withdrew his crucial support and blamed what he said was a partisan attempt to refocus on immigration.
On Jan. 29, 17-year-old Satish Gupta, a winsome teenager limping from severe knee pain, a side-effect of one of his TB medicines, showed up with his brother at one of the Mumbai treatment centers.
But it was Stoke who showed a greater desire to get forward in numbers and the introduction of Ricardo Fuller on 54 minutes - just three weeks after dislocating a shoulder - had a telling effect.
Analysts are anxious to discover whether this indicates that a recovery is already underway, or whether the US slowdown will be prolonged - which would have a knock-on effect on other economies around the world.
In the real world this would be pretty flimsy proof of a cause-effect relationship.
For example, inflation is classically thought of as a side-effect of strong economic growth.
He said the rise in commodities prices is a side-effect of the loose monetary policy.
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Bank chiefs said the fault happened as a side-effect of attempts to fix another problem.
Retroviruses often accumulate bits and pieces of genes as a side-effect of their activities.
Mr Berger posits that the elevated level of alcohol was a side-effect of Haider's extreme physical fitness.
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Recently it has been suggested that a return to heavily incentive based contracts will be a side-effect of FFP.
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And as a side-effect, it should ease the task of paying the health bills of all those older people.
Other species of mammal prune plants too albeit as a side-effect of eating them.
In rare instances, teeth grinding can be a side-effect of antidepressant medicines.
But he is credited with developing a way to use it that minimised some objects appearing to have a strange looking glow as a side-effect.
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This is largely a side-effect of the rapid rise in cohabitation.
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Nor is the turnaround just a side-effect of the commodities boom.
Some argue that using farmland for ethanol pushes up food prices internationally (world wheat prices rose 25% this week alone, perhaps as a side-effect of America's ethanol programme).
An American firm, 3D Systems, used one of its 3D printers to print a hammer for your correspondent, complete with a natty wood-effect handle and a metallised head.
Bolstering share prices was supposed to be only a side-effect.
The emergency services also have to cope with a side-effect of the ubiquitous mobile phone - silent 999 calls triggered by inadvertent dialling of phones left in pockets or bags.
The gene they chose is involved in the synthesis of a hormone called gibberellin and, once again, a side-effect of the alteration was to cause the trees to grow faster.
Barring major technological developments, though, nuclear power will continue to be a creature of politics not economics, with any growth a function of political will or a side-effect of protecting electrical utilities from open competition.
But companies still face several legal and practical challenges to implementing the policy, according to Johnson, unless it is a case of massive fraud or gross negligence, where it is easier to establish a cause-effect relationship.
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Demand for private security is a side-effect.
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The deal would also restore the Tata Group to its traditional place as India's biggest conglomerate by revenues, ousting the more abrasive Reliance Industries from the top spot a side-effect that Mr Tata and his colleagues are no doubt quietly relishing.
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The researchers included in their model a hitherto-neglected effect proposed by a German physicist, Arnold Sommerfeld, in the 1930s.
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