Electrical currents can be now be switched on and off at the smallest conceivable scale

Robert Wolkow is no stranger to mastering the ultra-small and the ultra-fast. A pioneer in atomic-scale science with a Guinness World Record to boot (for a needle with a single atom at the point), Wolkow’s team, together with collaborators at the Max Plank Institute in Hamburg, have just released findings that detail how to create atomic switches for electricity, many times smaller than what is currently used.

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It would need very good insulation to protect it against static electricity surge.

CrazyNeutrino said:

Electrical currents can be now be switched on and off at the smallest conceivable scale

Robert Wolkow is no stranger to mastering the ultra-small and the ultra-fast. A pioneer in atomic-scale science with a Guinness World Record to boot (for a needle with a single atom at the point), Wolkow’s team, together with collaborators at the Max Plank Institute in Hamburg, have just released findings that detail how to create atomic switches for electricity, many times smaller than what is currently used.

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“Today’s tiniest transistors operate at the 14 nanometer level, which still represents thousands of atoms. Wolkow’s and his team at the University of Alberta, NINT, and his spinoff QSi, have worked the technology down to just a few atoms.”

We had a thread about this before. By the way, 14 nanometres does not represent “thousands of atoms”, it represents 70 atoms.

Scientists just developed the world’s smallest transistor

mollwollfumble said:

We had a thread about this before. By the way, 14 nanometres does not represent “thousands of atoms”, it represents 70 atoms.

Scientists just developed the world’s smallest transistor

Presumably they are talking about the number of atoms in a 14 nanometre sphere.