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TINY TRANSISTOR

In a remarkable feat of micro-engineering, UNSW physicists have created a working transistor consisting of a single atom placed precisely in a silicon crystal.
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Nanocar takes to the copper highway | Laboratory News

Nanocar takes to the copper highway | Laboratory News | Science News | Scoop.it
A four wheel drive car just 1 nm long which uses electrons as fuel has been developed by researchers at the University of Groningen, who hope it might find uses in nanometre-sized robotics or as tiny transporters to move molecules around.

The vehicle has an organic carbon-based frame and four wheel or rotor parts connected to the body via carbon-carbon double bonds. It navigates its copper surface when a nearby scanning tunnelling microscope fires electrons at the bonds, causing them to break and reform the other way around – causing the wheels to turn and the car to move forward.

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World's Smallest Hard Drive Built of Atoms

World's Smallest Hard Drive Built of Atoms | Science News | Scoop.it
Just 96 atoms make up one byte of magnetic storage space.
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