Researchers at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) have created a single-atom transistor by implanting a designer molecule between two gold electrodes or wires to create a circuit. They believe that they ...

In recent years, electronics engineers have been trying to identify semiconducting materials that could substitute for ...

Engineers have created the world's smallest transistor in which electricity flows through a molecule. The device is only visible through a powerful microscope, but experts say it has the potential to ...

The world's smallest transistor, made from only six atoms of carbon suspended between two gold electrodes, has been created by scientists from the US and South Korea. Transistors amplify or switch ...

TSUKUBA, Japan, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An international research team at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) has used a transmission electron microscope (TEM) ...

The ever-shrinking features of transistors etched in silicon have always required pushing the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. The discovery of atomically thin materials like graphene and ...

December 10, 2012. Silicon’s crown is under threat: The semiconductor’s days as the king of microchips for computers and smart devices could be numbered, thanks to the development of the smallest ...

IBM claims to have developed the world’s smallest working silicon transistor. At 6 nanometers in length (a nanometer, nm, is one-billionth of a meter), the new transistor is at least 10 times smaller ...