Atom-Thin Transistor Silicene Makes Its Debut

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A transistor that is thinner than an atom sounds great until you realize it degrades in about sixty seconds.

Although the device’s performance is modest, and its lifetime measured in mere minutes, this proof of concept has already been causing a stir at conferences, says Deji Akinwande, a nano+materials researcher at the University of Texas at Austin who helped to make the transistor.
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How do you go from "atom-thin" to "thinner than an atom"? The article is quite clear about being one atom thick. :p
 
fixedmy7970 said:
why is this exciting?
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It's being proposed as the next big leap in technology. Faster, more efficient transistors would mean great things for computers. We can only go so far with Silicon. But even the hopefuls are estimating we're a couple decades from this being put to consumer use.

Still exciting to me :p
 
Catalan said:
How do you go from "atom-thin" to "thinner than an atom"? The article is quite clear about being one atom thick. :p
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That's when computing goes nuclear powered (splitting atoms). :p

Who knows, maybe someone will eventually figure out how to take things to the subatomic level if it's actually possible.
 
So electromigration is degrading the lifespan of these substrates?
 
fixedmy7970 said:
why is this exciting?
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Well if you like computers (I suspect you do considering you are here) and you understand that computer components getting faster, smaller and more efficient benefits you. Then that is why this is exciting.
 
Apple will make an iPhone 2D out of these, it'll be so thin it only has 2 dimensions. It'll cost $900, last for 60 seconds before self destructing, and not run Adobe Flash. :D
 
This is good news. Hopefully in a few years there will be a more robust prototype that will be closer to what we have available to us in the consumer market today.
 
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