The invention of semiconductor transistors in the 1940s revolutionized electronic circuitry. In the new world of 'nanoelectronics', a transistor whose active component is a single atom has now been demonstrated.
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De Franceschi, S., Kouwenhoven, L. Electronics and the single atom. Nature 417, 701–702 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417701a
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