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02-20-2012, 01:48 AM
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Single-atom Transistor Busts the Records
Researchers in Australia said on Sunday they had made with pinpoint accuracy a working transistor consisting of a single atom, marking a major stride towards next-generation, quantum computers. The device comprises a single phosphorus atom, etched into a silicon bed, with "gates" to control electrical flow and metallic contacts that are also on the atomic scale. "Our group has proved that it is really possible to position one phosphorus atom in a silicon environment, exactly as we need it, with near-atomic precision, and at the same time (incorporate) gates," said lead scientist Martin Fuechsle. Transistors, which switch or amplify electrical flow, are the building blocks of computer chips. This new discovery in nanotechnology could lead to computers that perform billions of times faster than current devices. For more than 50 years, the semi-conductor industry has been upholding Moore's Law, the celebrated prediction by Intel Corp. pioneer Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 18 months or so. But the astonishing run of success could hit a wall by the end of this decade without a breakthrough in miniaturising transistors. "We decided 10 years ago to start this program to try and make single atom devices as fast as we could, and try and beat that law," said Michelle Simmons, director of the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication at the University of New South Wales, where the work was carried out The team made the transistor from a silicon crystal that was placed in a vacuum. To etch it, they used a device called a scanning tunnelling microscope, which is able to see atoms and manipulate them using a super-fine metal tip. Phosphorus atoms were deposited in a nano-scale "trench," covered with an inert layer of hydrogen, and the unwanted ones were then weeded out. A chemical reaction welded the "transistor" atom to the silicon surface. The minute device operates in ultra-cold temperatures provided by liquid helium. It is not a finished product but proof-of-principle, designed to show that single-atom devices can be built and controlled. "Scientist have made atomic-scale transistors in the past, but through a chance find rather than by design," Simmons said. "But this device is perfect," she said. "This is the first time anyone has shown control of a single atom in a substrate [chip base] with this level of precise accuracy." The research is reported in the specialist journal Nature Nanotechnology. http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/w...s-the-records/ |
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02-20-2012, 07:33 AM
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Re: Single-atom Transistor Busts the Records
.."by Intel Corp. pioneer Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 18 months or so.."eems like AMD is in trouble  |
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10-03-2013, 10:19 PM
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 They Lied. There ALL LIES Poster Rank:314 <--We Did It. So Can You Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 4,144
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Re: Single-atom Transistor Busts the Records
By using the crazy things that the quantum world gives us... with the entanglement properties of partials, this next generation of computers and especially with security will be insane. were talkin millions of times faster than the anything before......
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