Thursday, April 19, 2012

World’s Smallest Transistor Created Using Single Atom

Scientists have created what they claim is the world’s smallest transistor, using a single phosphorus atom. An international team at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University of Melbourne, has described the smallest transistor ever built in the Natur Nanotechnolog journal.
Michelle Simmons, who led the team, says the development is less about improving current technology than building future technology.
“This is a beautiful demonstration of controlling matter at the atomic scale to make a real device. Fifty years ago when the first transistor was developed, no one could have predicted the role computers would play in our society today

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