What is a Single-Electron Transistor? A single-electron transistor (SET) is a nanoscale electronic device that allows the precise control of individual electrons. Unlike conventional transistors that ...

But modern predictions of the size limit are based on some very fundamental physics -- the size of the atom and the ... that's really needed is a single electron at a time. A transistor small ...

The team led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of ...

That's roughly the size of a single atom and the work should help scientists ... technique isn't suitable for measuring the size of transistors and other components inside chips, mostly because ...

For instance, if the usually perfectly-ordered atoms in a crystal had even a single atom out of place ... turning a semiconductor crystal into a transistor.

Chinese scientists have recently achieved the fabrication of single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of merely one-millionth of an A4 paper sheet, setting a new record for the thinnest metal ...

A Chinese research team has successfully developed a single-atom-thick metal layer ... technologies such as ultra-small, low-power transistors and transparent displays, the research team said.