Thread: The first molecular transistor in the world

For the first time ever, researchers at Yale University and the Institute of Science and Technology Gwangju, South Korea, just created a transistor from a single molecule.

A molecule that acts as a transistor

Scientists have adjusted the tension of a molecule of benzene (C6H6) attached to gold connectors to change its status, proving that the structure may behave the same way as silicon transistors that control current flow.

The beginning of a revolution

The academics come to publish their findings in the journal Nature, but also admitted it will take several decades before we see this technology move from lab to production lines. These searches are not alone in the field of miniaturization of transistors and the Australian and Finnish scientists have presented early transistor made from a single atom.

Note also the historical blink of an eye while these studies have been published by Yale on the anniversary of the first functional transistor by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, December 23, 1947.