The operating mechanism of that 2012 work is more in line with the operational mechanisms of a conventional MOSFET transistor, just taken to an extreme limit. You'll see why that's important in a sec. Another rather beautiful paper is this 2012 Nature Nanotechnology where a single phosphorus atom is used that, unlike the 2004 paper, is deposited on a silicon substrate and largely developed using conventional semiconductor processing techniques (though if I recall the phosophorus atom itself was deposited with the needle of a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM). In fact, almost 15 years ago, in 2004, this very same group made a single-atom transistor with a silver atom, you can see the paper here. But, just for the sake of giving credit where credit is due this is not even close to the first single-atom transistor as the article implies. Recommended Linksįor a list of related subreddits, hover over top menu. One of the fundamental assumptions in future(s) studies is that the future is plural rather than singular, that is, that it consists of alternative future(s) of varying degrees of likelihood but that it is impossible in principle to say with certainty which one will occur. If history studies our past and social sciences study our present, what is the study of our future? Future(s) Studies (colloquially called 'future(s)' by many of the field's practitioners) is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to hypothesize the possible, probable, preferable, or alternative future(s).

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