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Nature 460, 76-80 (2 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/nature08134;

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A single-molecule optical transistor

The transistor is one of the most influential inventions of modern times and is ubiquitous in present-day technologies. In the continuing development of increasingly powerful computers as well as alternative technologies based on the prospects of quantum information processing, switching and amplification functionalities are being sought in ultrasmall objects, such as nanotubes, molecules or atoms.

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