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		pushedx on Dec 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Moore's Law blowout sale is ending "You can't build a transistor with one atom." Actually, you can, it's called a single electron transistor (SET), and is a hot research area right now.

2muchcoffeeman on Dec 6, 2013 [–]

http://luciano.stanford.edu/~shimbo/set.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb_blockade#Single_electro...

Looking at the pictures, these devices are not made from single atoms. They consist of multiple atoms but only require a few electrons to function.

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