News tagged with molecular transistor

Study finds how lysozyme protein in tears annihilates dangerous bacteria

A disease-fighting protein in our teardrops has been tethered to a tiny transistor, enabling UC Irvine scientists to discover exactly how it destroys dangerous bacteria. The research could prove critical to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

An advance toward ultra-portable electronic devices

Scientists are reporting a key advance toward the long-awaited era of "single-molecule electronics," when common electronic circuits in computers, smart phones, audio players, and other devices may shrink ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Scientists create world's first molecular transistor

A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the first transistor made from a single molecule. The team, which includes researchers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 2

Researchers create molecular diode

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers create molecular diode

Recently, at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, N.J. Tao and collaborators have found a way to make a key electrical component on a phenomenally tiny scale. Their single-molecule diode is described ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Michigan Tech Team Models Molecular Transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Lessons from Schon -- the worst physics fraudster?

How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 5

Scientists control complex nucleation processes using DNA origami seeds

The construction of complex man-made objects--a car, for example, or even a pizza--almost invariably entails what are known as "top-down" processes, in which the structure and order of the thing being built ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0