#51: Physicists Build the World’s Smallest Transistor

The tiny device measures an astonishing 10 atoms by 1 atom.

By Stephen Ornes
Dec 12, 2008 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:29 AM
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Physicist Leonid Ponomarenko build graphene into a chip. | K.S. Novoselov & A. K. Geim

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Smaller is better when it comes to the transistors that form the heart of modern electronics, and in April a team of European physicists reported in

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