A team of scientists at the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication, at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), unveiled a fully functional single-atom transistor, which they predict will go on to become a critical building block of tomorrow's high-performance computing devices. The new transistor design was described in a paper, published by Nature. The active component of this transistor is a single phosphorous atom patterned between atomic-scale electrodes and control gates.
Researchers develop first single-atom transistor
Posted on Monday, February 20 2012 @ 21:40 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
TPU writes scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have crafted the first functional single-atom transistor: