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Re:Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom by bwarp on Sunday February 19, 2012 @03:03PM (#3610221)
That's great and all that but you can't scale up production at that scale (imagine even building an opamp with it) and it doesn't mention anywhere how long the gate actually lasted. Thermal effects at that scale would probably destroy it pretty quickly.
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Re:Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom by tenpointwo on Sunday February 19, 2012 @05:00PM (#3610566)
I think this is more about proof of concept than a presentation of its readiness for production at a large scale or at any scale. Give it 5 more years and maybe we'll be closer to seeing it more frequently in the technologies we use.
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Re:Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom by tsotha on Sunday February 19, 2012 @04:28PM (#3610468)
Even if you could build an opamp with it, what kind of current would you end up with?
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