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Article: Bell Labs Scientists Usher in New Era of Molecular-Scale Electronics; Tiny Organic Transistors May Lead to Less Expensive and More Powerful Chips.
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- October 17, 2001
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Business Editors/High Tech Writers
MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2001
Scientists from Lucent Technologies' (NYSE: LU) Bell Labs have created organic transistors with a single-molecule channel length, setting the stage for a new class of high-speed, inexpensive carbon-based electronics.
The size of a transistor's channel -- the space between its electrodes -- influences its output current and switching speed.
In these new molecular-scale transistors, fabricated by a multidisciplinary team of Bell Labs researchers, the length of one molecule defines the channel's physical dimension; it is more than a factor of ten smaller ...