clipped from www.tkk.fiSingle-atom transistor discovered
Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, whose active region composes only of a single phosphorus atom in silicon. The results have just been published in Nano Letters.
clipped from www.gizmag.comSingle-atom transistor promises new quantum computing breakthroughs
For the first time, the researchers were able to observe "spin up" and "spin down" states — which will be translated into a "1" and a "0" respectively — for a single phosphorus atom. This is another crucial step towards the control of these states and, ultimately, the realization of a small and stable quantum bit that can be read, written and stored quickly and consistently.
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Helsinki University of Technology TKK
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