The world's smallest transistor available: only molecular size

On the road to saving Moore's Law, everybody seems to be mustering strength. Not long ago, IBM announced the successful development of the 7nm chip, and now another R & D team claims that the smallest transistors ever made - with only a single molecule size.

To accomplish this astonishing achievement came from a joint research team from Germany, Japan and the United States that surrounded a phthalocyanine molecule with 12 positively charged indium atoms on an indium-arsenide crystal substrate and then got a transistor .

As early as 2012, IBM announced the successful integration of a single bit of information into a 12-atom structure, and this time, the success of the transistor manufacturing is a huge leap forward. The transistor is only 167 picometers (10-12 meters) in diameter, 42 times smaller than the smallest circuit ever.

The basis of this achievement is that researchers unexpectedly discovered that the orientations of phthalocyanine molecules are affected by the charges on them and then precisely limit the indium atoms to specific grids by scanning the electron flow of the tunneling electron microscope to limit the movement of indium atoms .

However, the research results are still at an early stage and its application is still in the foreseeable future. However, the research results have paved the way for large-scale quantum computing, but the specific situation remains to be further verified.

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