Computer chip makers have long struggled to build ever-smaller transistors to allow faster, more powerful computers. Writing in the journal Nature Natotechnology, a team of scientists describes what may be the ultimate limit of that struggle — a transistor made of a single atom. Michelle Simmons, a physicist at the University of New South Wales in Australia and leader of the project, discusses the work.
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Michelle Simmons
Michelle Simmons is the director for the Australian Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology. She’s based in Sydney, Australia.
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