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Single-atom transistor discovered

18 pointsby tengkahweeover 15 years ago

5 comments

tmvphilover 15 years ago
This is remarkable, but these kind of things are only possible at extremely low temperatures and in high magnetic fields, for example this was done at 100mK and in a 4T field, so you won't be seeing intel pumping these out any time soon.
Confusionover 15 years ago
I suspect this transistor suffers from the same problem as all other 'miracle' transistors, including carbon nanotube based transistors, that have been announced over the past decade: the gain < 1, which means you can't build anything other than the most simple circuits out of them.
pavsover 15 years ago
Is it "discovered" or "created"?
amixover 15 years ago
First steps towards quantum computers...!
ctover 15 years ago
Amazing!