by OLD1953 » Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:38 pm
A new drop into the realm of the small.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/20 ... ransistor/
Just last month, the New South Wales team — lead by professor Michelle Simmons — advanced the cause by demonstrating that Ohm’s Law of electrical resistivity extends to the world of very small particles, and now, together with Gerhard Klimeck and his team at Purdue, they’ve made a more significant breakthrough by placing a single-atom transistor exactly where they want to place it.
“This is a big step,” says Jeremy Levy, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, who has closely watched the nanoscale research at New South Wales. “They’ve shown that they can control where the atom goes, and that may translate to building machines in the quantum realm. There have been other single-atom transistors, but none have done it with the same precision.”
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This march to the singularity has me thinking of the chorus to a Pink Floyd song:
"All in all it's just another brick in the wall."
What drives me crazy is that so few people even realize it's coming.
A new drop into the realm of the small.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/sa-transistor/
Just last month, the New South Wales team — lead by professor Michelle Simmons — advanced the cause by demonstrating that Ohm’s Law of electrical resistivity extends to the world of very small particles, and now, together with Gerhard Klimeck and his team at Purdue, they’ve made a more significant breakthrough by placing a single-atom transistor exactly where they want to place it.
“This is a big step,” says Jeremy Levy, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, who has closely watched the nanoscale research at New South Wales. “They’ve shown that they can control where the atom goes, and that may translate to building machines in the quantum realm. There have been other single-atom transistors, but none have done it with the same precision.”
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This march to the singularity has me thinking of the chorus to a Pink Floyd song:
"All in all it's just another brick in the wall."
What drives me crazy is that so few people even realize it's coming.