Transistor built from a molecule and a few atoms
Monday, July 13, 2015 - 12:10
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicists have used a scanning tunneling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms. The observed transistor action is markedly different from the conventionally expected behavior and could be important for future device technologies as well as for fundamental studies of electron transport in molecular nanostructures.