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Science 17 October 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5337, p. 388
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5337.388
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Research News

ELECTRONICS:
Terribly Tiny Transistor Unveiled

Dennis Normile

TOKYO--A transistor's gate--the narrow electrode that controls the flow of electrons through the device--can be made only so small, or else electrons will manage to sneak through even when the device is off. But at a recent conference in Japan, a group at NEC's Fundamental Research Laboratories in Tsukuba announced that, by combining a novel design with high-precision techniques for carving semiconductors, it has developed an experimental transistor with a gate 20 times smaller than in the transistors found on the densest commercially available chips.

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