Transistor takes advantage of quantum interference

spectrum.ieee.org

79 pointscannibalXxx13 comments

This research is awesome. And I think organic semiconductors are super promising, especially looking at the success of OLED.

But the IEEE article is missing the biggest pitfall of this tech right now: it only works well at very low temperatures (80K and lower).

To be fair, they do sort of mention it:

> At low temperatures, the single-molecule device shows a strong change in current with only a small change in gate voltage

But you’re absolutely right that saying “low temperature” when talking about 80K is a huge understatement.