Researchers create one-atom transistor

Transistor working on one single atom! Yes, you heard that right. Researchers from the New South Wales University, Purdue University and the Melbourne University have created a transistor using just one basic unit of matter, the atom. This is definitely the world’s first and is a new milestone as far as technological breakthroughs and progress is concerned. It’s not that silicon single atom transistors haven’t been created in the past, we’ll have to use the term ‘discovered’ out here, because they have been created accidentally. Not only that, these guys have made this new creation, keeping in mind the future. “We really decided 10 years ago to start this program to make single-atom devices as fast as we could, and try and beat that law,” Michelle Simmons, Director of the ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communications, and the team’s Head Researcher said. “So here we are in 2012, and we’ve made a single-atom transistor in roughly about eight to 10 years ahead of where the industry is going to be.”

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