[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: small, rigid molecular transistor (graphene quantum dot based?)

[Bryan Bishop]

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Subject: Fw: small, rigid molecular transistor
Date: Friday 09 May 2008
From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>
To: "Bryan Bishop" <kanzure at gmail.com>

Hi Bryan,

My friend Forrest has written to a number of people we know.
You might be interested in this.

Lee


> I have talked to all of you about the lack of a small, rigid, simple 
design for an electronic molecular transistor.
>
> This paper describes single-electron transistors that were constructed 
and tested with feature size ~50nm out of C and H only. 
> They claim that they could reliably fabricate these devices with 
features as small as 10nm. I realize that this has little to do 
> with molecular manufacturing per se, but such a simple device seems 
attractive as an early mechanosynthesis target.
>
> Chaotic Dirac Billiard in Graphene Quantum Dots
> http://onnes.ph.man.ac.uk/nano/Publications/Science_QD_2008.pdf
>
> Atom-thick material runs rings around silicon
> 
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn13730-atomthick-material-runs-rings-around-silicon.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
>
> Forrest


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