The laws of physics had set a 5-nanometer threshold on the size of transistor gates among conventional semiconductors. Researchers have succeeded in creating a transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate. For comparison, a strand of human hair is about 50,000 nanometers thick.

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The laws of physics had set a 5-nanometer threshold on the size of transistor gates among conventional semiconductors. Researchers have succeeded in creating a transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate. For comparison, a strand of human hair is about 50,000 nanometers thick.