The Atoms Went Marching In One By One
News With the laser energy absorbed, the atom's energy state drops, and the atom falls into the chamber. Getting a single, constantly moving atom to go exactly where you want it to is a difficult scientific challenge," NIST wrote in a statement.
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
IBM Makes Molecular Switch
News Current hard disks use magnetic domains that include millions of atoms, so the ability to manipulate the magnetic field of a single atom could vastly increase the storage of magnetic media. We can literally take one atom, measure its magnetic...
[August 31, 2007, 16:52]
Welcome To Hafnium, Home Of Chips, Bombs And Conspiracies
Blog Hafnium isn't the only material that can do this, but it is very good - it's got the right number of electrons distributed in the right orbitals around the atom to let it be easily influenced by electrical charge.
[December 17, 2007, 12:09]
Pencil + Sticky Tape = Desktop Supercollider + Post-silicon Processors
Blog Then, by the insanely simple expedient of using adhesive tape to peel off layers from ordinary graphite, then rubbing those layers gently against an oxidised silicon surface, UK researcher Andre Geim from the University of Manchester's Mesoscopic...
[November 6, 2007, 9:15]
British Scientists Create Atom-thick Transistor
News British scientists have created what they claim is the world's smallest transistor, measuring one atom in thickness and 10 atoms in width. Graphene is a one-atom-thick lattice of carbon atoms, organised in a honeycomb or chickenwire formation.
[April 21, 2008, 14:17]
