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Saturday, November 17, 2001
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/22890.html Scientists tune in to molecule-sized transistors By Tony Smith Boffins continue to try to shrink the size of the micro-circuitry from which processors are built, to allow chips to be designed that offer ever more features yet don't rapidly become too hot to operate - and before their transistors reach one clear physical limit: the size of a single molecule. Working molecular transistors, then, are the new goal in microchip development. Here are the three latest attempts, details of which were published recently in learned journal Science....
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