Transistors get atomic
 

Boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a transistor which works at an atomic level.

Physicists at the punchy titled Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI) institute and the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), along with chums at the NTT Basic Research Laboratories (NTT-BRL), Japan, and the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) used a scanning tunnelling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms.

The observed transistor action is markedly different from the conventionally expected behaviour and could be important for future device technologies as well as for fundamental studies of electron transport in molecular nanostructures.

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