Transistor Single Atom In Size Created By Australian Scientists

Just when you thought electronic devices couldn't get any smaller comes word that Australian scientists have fabricated a transistor out of a single atom. Transistors--semiconductor devices that amplify and switch electronic signals--are considered the building blocks of computers.The researchers created the minute device--a phosphorous atom precisely positioned on a silicon crystal--using a scanning tunneling microscope inside a vacuum chamber.

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