{"id":162252,"date":"2023-04-15T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T01:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/quantum-leap-worlds-smallest-transistor-built-with-just-7-atoms"},"modified":"2023-04-15T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T01:24:07","slug":"quantum-leap-worlds-smallest-transistor-built-with-just-7-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/quantum-leap-worlds-smallest-transistor-built-with-just-7-atoms","title":{"rendered":"Quantum leap: World\u2019s smallest transistor built with just 7 atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-leap-worlds-smallest-transistor-built-with-just-7-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude17 year 2010 :3.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/(PhysOrg.com\">(PhysOrg.com<\/a>) \u2014 Scientists have literally taken a leap into a new era of computing power by making the world\u2019s smallest precision-built transistor \u2014 a \u201cquantum dot\u201d of just seven atoms in a single silicon crystal. Despite its incredibly tiny size \u2014 a mere four billionths of a metre long \u2014 the quantum dot is a functioning electronic device, the world\u2019s first created deliberately by placing individual atoms.<\/p>\n<p>It can be used to regulate and control electrical current flow like a commercial transistor but it represents a key step into a new age of atomic-scale miniaturisation and super-fast, super-powerful computers.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery is reported today in the journal <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i> by a team from the UNSW Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (CQCT) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude17 year 2010 :3. (PhysOrg.com) \u2014 Scientists have literally taken a leap into a new era of computing power by making the world\u2019s smallest precision-built transistor \u2014 a \u201cquantum dot\u201d of just seven atoms in a single silicon crystal. Despite its incredibly tiny size \u2014 a mere four billionths of a metre long \u2014 the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}