The transistor, when fully saturated, could turn a circuit on or off, and then could be used to control an electrical circuit or store information in an electrical circuit.

当该晶体管时完全饱和，能把一个电路打开或关闭，然后可用于控制一个电路的工作，或者将信息存储在一个电路。

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Those levels represent a one or zero, just as the off and on states of a transistor correspond to zero or one bits of data in traditional computing.

这些能量态的水平代表0或者1，就像传统计算机使用晶体管的开关状态来代表数据位0或1一样。

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A while back Dutch scientists managed to create a nanotube activated transistor that could toggle on and off with the flow of a single electron.

前阵子荷兰科学家成功创造出依靠单个电子进行开关的碳纳米管晶体管。

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Last year Hewlett-Packard, along with a team of scientists from UCLA, proved the ability to make a switch that could be turned off and on, like a transistor, out of a single organic molecule called a catenane.

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Last year Hewlett-Packard, along with a team of scientists from UCLA, proved that it is possible to make a switch that can be turned off and on, like a transistor, out of a single organic molecule called a catenane.

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It avoids the typical binary behavior of transistors, where the transistor is simply turned on or off.

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