Smallest Possible Switch: Single Gold Atom Forms The Contact
Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 09:14
in Physics & Chemistry
The smallest mechanical switch plus an electronic switch of a type never seen before. That's how one young physicist sums up the results of his PhD research on electric current through atoms and molecules. "The ultimate aim of nanotechnology is to use molecules for electronics," he says. "That aim has now come a step closer."