November 27, 2001. Copyright 2001. Graphic News. All rights reserved.

GN13168 (134mm by 203mm @ 300px/inch). Picture shows Bell Labs scientists Zhenan Bao (left) and Hendrik Schon, who have fabricated molecular-scale organic transistors. The tiny transistors are so small -- only a billionth of a meter each -- that approximately ten million of them would fit on the head of a pin. Made of an unconventional organic semiconductor material and using a novel fabrication technique, they may lead to smaller, faster and cheaper computer chips in the future.

Source: Lucent Technologies