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Building a Single-Molecule Transistor from Scratch
- fernly 11y agoCute & impressive, but about as far from application as any research can get. Basically using an entire scanning-tunneling microscope (STM) as the source lead of a single transistor. This does not scale well.
- dogma1138 11y agoA similar thing was probably said about the 1st transistor which was the size of a book or so. If you can build a basic gate out of molecular transistors without leakage or capacitance issues you'll make quite a breakthrough even if you need an entire electron microscope to power it.