Aussie, Finnish Researchers Create a Single-Atom Transistor

ACKyushu writes "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 comprises only 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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Re:stating the obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

Do people really need to be told where Helsinki, New South Wales, and Melbourne are?

Yes, if they are Gringos.

Re:Moore's Law Extended?

[Anonymous Coward]

What the fuck does this have to do with anything? Yeah, I know you yankee dickheads aren't geniuses at geography, and that you probably thought that Finland is a province of Germany and that since there is only one researcher in Europe (the rest of them are fishermen), this dude from Germany and the dude in Finland is proooooobably the same guy, but guess what - it isn't. (Oh? That's not it? You have a real argument? Then why didn't you present it in the first place you fucking dickhead?)