Transistor built from a single atom

[SaltwaterServr]

http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-features/61557-perfect-transistor-built-from-a-single-atom

Physicists have created a working transistor using only a single phosphorus atom placed precisely in a silicon crystal.

The development could mark a big step towards quantum computing. While single-atom transistors have been produced before, it's been by chance, with researchers either searching through many devices or tuning multi-atom devices to isolate one that works....

 

[Rackat]

Quantum computing? Does that make anyone else nervous? LOL

 

[MonsterD]

Quantum computing? Does that make anyone else nervous? LOL

Not Ziggy.

 

[LeonDixson]

I looked up quantum computer on wikipedia. My head is swimming.:

 

[Yeagermeister]

Not Ziggy.

Beat me to the Quantum Leap reference :laugh1:

 

[Sarge]

....and here I am just learning how to use a calculator.

 

[Yeagermeister]

....and here I am just learning how to use a calculator.

Too you the pop top can is state of the art :laugh1:

 

[Sarge]

Too you the pop top can is state of the art :laugh1:

Not a fan of the pop top. The top needs to be placed right back in the PBR so on occasion, you can swallow it.

Ah...the old days.

 

[Wimbo]

My company has been working with atomic computing for years. R&D phase, of course. At it's basest form, you can create a binary code by positioning the electron in polar directions... for example, up is 0, down is 1. pretty cool stuff.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Too you the pop top can is state of the art :laugh1:

I dare anyone to master the TI-89 Platinum.

I gave mine to a friend's daughter who's a math major at Iowa State. She's taking Differential Equations her second semester. That calculator is a monster. Some of the HP engineering models are off the chain.

 

[Sarge]

I dare anyone to master the TI-89 Platinum.

I gave mine to a friend's daughter who's a math major at Iowa State. She's taking Differential Equations her second semester. That calculator is a monster. Some of the HP engineering models are off the chain.

Just looking at it gives me a headache.