Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon. The results have just been published in Nano Letters. The working principles of the device are based on sequential tunneling of single electrons between the phosphorus atom and the source and drain leads of the transistor. The tunneling can be suppressed or allowed by controlling the voltage on a nearby metal electrode with a width of a few tens of nanometers. |
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Originally Posted by SLeeZeY Lets hope Finland has the data backed up before Australia bans it
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Originally Posted by SLeeZeY Lets hope Finland has the data backed up before Australia bans it
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Originally Posted by SLeeZeY Lets hope Finland has the data backed up before Australia bans it
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Originally Posted by Gr3m1in We're more likely to ban bad jokes first |
Originally Posted by Ecchi-BANZAII!!! Is it Love-Colored Interesting or Final Interest? |
Originally Posted by skarm umad? anyhow, this is pretty interesting |
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Originally Posted by MrDeodorant Australian censorship is a bad joke. |
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Originally Posted by lordikon I lol'd. On-topic: Single-atom? I want smaller. Sub-atomic particle transistors please. 
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Originally Posted by quentin That's interesting, because that's pretty much as small as you can get. So in the future when/if we use this technology, CPUs only can get physically bigger if they want more power/more transistors. |
