Transistor one atom wide

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | June 14 2002

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The human race will be obsolete within 50 years.

Some of it is now...

[Fish out of Water]

thanks for the ping

[gcruse]

 
And how do you use this tiny transistor in manufacturing?
What tool do you use to pick and place it?

Same as they use right now.  Electron microscopes.

[Post Toasties]

Could the 'puter of the future resemble thick framed virtual vision goggles with earpieces and voice recognition so that everybody can be stumbling around in public like a geek?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

BTTT

[Woodman]

Bingo, Check out MIT's Wearable Computing reasearch.

[Tuor]

Quantum interference would ruin any system of transistors this small, methinks.

Tuor

[Woodman]

Quantum is much closer than you thing. Do a web search, I think IBM (but I could be wrong) did it last year before 911. If I remember correctly they solved the first mamatical problem ever with one in some pretty amazing time. The thing is AI is still a long way of. Raw computing power does not equal inteligence.

[WIMom]

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[JavaTheHutt]

I want a computer so small it only has one key on the keyboard.

"Press any key to continue"

Where's the ANY key?

[Woodman]

Here are a couple of FR links about Quantum Computing. I was close, one is from Dec 01 and the other is from May 2000 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/598688/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a390d84836791.htm

[PISANO]

Amazing.....my first Hard Drive was for an Apple IIgs. It was 10 MB........yes 10 Mega Bytes.......it cost $399.00!! I thought I would never need another!!! Simply astounding. As an aside I was on the Navy's second Tactical Data Sytems ship. It took HOURS to reboot the System. The Computer was enormous and took up most of the 03 level. Ahhhhh.......when I was young!

[GeekDejure]

Could the 'puter of the future resemble thick framed virtual vision goggles with earpieces and voice recognition so that everybody can be stumbling around in public like a geek?

Hi, P.T. . . . Ummm . . . You're referring to the type of 'geek' who bites the heads off of live chickens, right ???

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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A Maxtor 80 Gigabyte 7200 rmp ATA133 drive for 99.00 after rebates!
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[Centurion2000]

Many scientists believe transistors cannot get any smaller than one atom in size,

I'd really like to see someone try to make a transistor out of subatomic particles or quarks. That would be a VERY interesting trick.

The problem with this story is that if it's TRULY one atom in size then how the heck do they get past the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle ?

[Centurion2000]

The next step is the organic logic device based on organic devices to aproximate the processing power of the human brain.

The human race will be obsolete within 50 years.

And hopefully by that time the old (like me) will be using nanotechnological brain uploading/copying to get into world net (trapped and living in the internet) or robot bodies.

I'm willing to bet that there are children being born today that have a chance at living into effective immortality.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Does the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle apply to the atom or just the Electron Cloud?

[rudypoot]

thanks for the link. I appreciate it.

[ReadMyMind]

And how do you use this tiny transistor in manufacturing? What tool do you use to pick and place it?

Current generation tiny transistors (0.1 micron, or 50-150 atoms wide) are only used in massive groups. They are useless alone. They are generally called chips and they are picked and placed with robots or human fingers. I would guess that the single-atom transistor must be grouped with billions and billions of o ther single-atom transistors in computer systems order to benefit from the extremely small size.