Four-atom-wide wire may herald tiny computers

Publication: msnbc.com Date: January 10, 2012 View Article

A wire that is just four atoms wide and one atom tall, yet works just as well as the ordinary copper wires running behind your wall, was recently created by an international team of scientists.

The breakthrough brings closer to reality a future where computers smaller than a pinhead are faster and more powerful than some of today’s supercomputers, according to the researchers.

Tags: Atom, Computer, Nanotechnology, Physics
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