1999: Computer: Device One Molecule Thick Is Smallest Ever Made

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The tiniest computer circuits ever assembled have been created by scientists from the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California, and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The development of these new circuits, the size of a single layer of molecules, was announced in an article... ...