Scientists Create World’s First Molecular Transistor.
Very nice writeup of the research over at Next Big Future.
To my mind what’s new here isn’t the transistor per se — semiconducting and conductive states have been known in CNTs for over a decade, and FET and diode-like arrangements of them have been around for the same. What’s new is the ability to synthesize and characterize them in a circuit (as opposed to pushing bits around in an AFM until a transistor happened).
Note this is Mark Reed’s group at Yale (and collaborators).
