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Physicists Watch Individual Electrons Flow

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-with-the-flow dept.

SG writes "Physicists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed the world's most sensitive ammeter yet. The device allows current to be measured at the attoampere level and is expected to be of use in nanoelectronics, calibration devices, quantum computation and biology."

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  1. WHY!? by jollyroger1210 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why would you want to? What will this achieve? I mean, what practical application could this have in real life?

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