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Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/s...tor-from-a-single-atom.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2

Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal.

The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be orders of magnitude smaller and quicker than today’s silicon-based machines.
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