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Researchers Create Single-Atom Transistor
HardOCP ^ | Monday February 20, 2012 | Steve

Posted on 02/20/2012 11:43:03 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Marine_Uncle
I don't understand this stuff at all....but I did work with the 360 assembler.

It has gonnta have some impact on puters.

21 posted on 02/20/2012 2:27:46 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"It has gonnta have some impact on puters."
Perhaps. Perhaps not. Time will tell.
22 posted on 02/20/2012 2:57:32 PM PST by Marine_Uncle
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Carry_Okie
In the book of Genesis it says:"And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." (referring to the tower of babel)

Makes one wonder how many angles can dance on the head of a pin!!! (grin)

23 posted on 02/20/2012 3:40:11 PM PST by SierraWasp (I'm done being disappointed by "He/She is the only one who can win" and being embarrassed later!!!)
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To: SierraWasp

Angels....this electronic stuff has all kinds of wonders.


24 posted on 02/20/2012 3:50:13 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: The Cajun
LOL, some of the stuff I worked on required a wide field of view X20 binocular microscope and a $3000 Pace solder/desolder station with a vacuum pick up tool to handle the components............Glad I'm retired :^)

The stuff we manufactured in the late 80s had diodes six mils across manually thermo-compression wedge-bonded with half-mil wire. The bonding pad on the diode was .0007 across. IIRC, we ran 60GHz through it as a switch.

25 posted on 02/20/2012 5:35:14 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The RNC would prefer Obama to a conservative nominee.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Great, now all we need is single atom leads and we’re in business.

I hope the tax payers didn’t have to pay for this laboratory recreation expedition...


26 posted on 02/20/2012 5:57:03 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; An.American.Expatriate

>> “And it would take all day to make one mouthful.” <<

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Triple-clock it.


27 posted on 02/20/2012 5:59:24 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Carry_Okie
Ouch!
Seven layer boards with smc's that had to take 350 deg F and vibration was bad enough.
28 posted on 02/20/2012 6:06:18 PM PST by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
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To: SierraWasp

Or how many of your angels have angles...


29 posted on 02/20/2012 7:40:30 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Just so long as they are all right angles!!!


30 posted on 02/20/2012 10:02:07 PM PST by SierraWasp (I'm done being disappointed by "He/She is the only one who can win" and being embarrassed later!!!)
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To: patton
*** Phospherus? As in willy pete? ***

(Shusssh) You're showing your age ;-)

31 posted on 02/21/2012 4:30:37 AM PST by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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To: SierraWasp
Makes one wonder how many angles can dance on the head of a pin!!! (grin)

If you use angles and they are infinitely acute, that could be a lot of them. If you use angels, I just don't know.

32 posted on 02/21/2012 10:12:25 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Well I don’t really know ‘bout that, but what I do know is that we have a whole city out here full of Lost Angles!!! (wider grin)


33 posted on 02/21/2012 11:34:14 PM PST by SierraWasp (I'm done being disappointed by "He/She is the only one who can win" and being embarrassed later!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks for the ping & link!


34 posted on 02/22/2012 11:15:20 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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