{"id":31477,"date":"2016-10-28T21:17:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T04:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/electrical-currents-can-be-now-be-switched-on-and-off-at-the-atomic-scale"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:06:45","slug":"electrical-currents-can-be-now-be-switched-on-and-off-at-the-atomic-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/electrical-currents-can-be-now-be-switched-on-and-off-at-the-atomic-scale","title":{"rendered":"Electrical currents can be now be switched on and off at the atomic scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrical-currents-can-be-now-be-switched-on-and-off-at-the-atomic-scale.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To all those who said it couldn\u2019t happen for another 10+ years; this article is definitely for you.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrical-currents-can-be-now-be-switched-on-and-off-at-the-atomic-scale.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Wolkow, University of Alberta\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>Robert Wolkow, University of Alberta physics professor and the Principal Research Officer at Canada\u2019s National Institute for Nanotechnology, has developed a technique to switch a single-atom channel.<\/p>\n<p>What does it all mean? With applications for practical systems like silicon semi-conductor electronics, it means smaller, more efficient, more energy-conserving computers, as just one example of the technology revolution that is unfolding right before our very eyes (if you can squint that hard).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=44940.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=44940.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To all those who said it couldn\u2019t happen for another 10+ years; this article is definitely for you. Robert Wolkow, University of Alberta physics professor and the Principal Research Officer at Canada\u2019s National Institute for Nanotechnology, has developed a technique to switch a single-atom channel. What does it all mean? With applications for practical systems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65900,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions\/65900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}