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Single Atom Transitor?
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Posted by: TotalRecall
EETimes is reporting that a research team has displayed a single atom switch:
ITHACA, N.Y. — Using a single cobalt atom as a switch, a research team at Cornell University has demonstrated a working transistor only 1.3 nanometers in length. Silicon transistors today are generally more than 100 nm long.
"We have a long way to go before we incorporate this transistor into electronic applications," said Paul McEuen, professor of physics at Cornell, "but we have demonstrated the potential for shrinking transistors well beyond the limits of conventional lithography." McEuen co-invented the technique with a former postdoctoral colleague, Hongkun Park, who is now a professor at Harvard University. Also contributing to the work were Cornell professors James Sethna, Dan Ralph and Hector Abruna.
An interesting article that almost surely will foreshardow the future of computing. Read more here.
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