Scientists build 'single-atom transistor'

Sunday, December 6, 2009 - 14:35 in Physics & Chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon. The results have just been published in Nano Letters.

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