World's thinnest nanowires created by Vanderbilt grad student
Nashville (UPI) Apr 29, 2013 - A Vanderbilt doctorate student has found a way to construct the world's thinnest nanowire - at just three atoms wide - using a finely focused beam of electrons. Junhao Lin, who has been conducting his research as a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was able to create wiring out of atomic monolayers of transition-metal dichalcogenides, a special family of semi ... more

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