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Body biasing and self-assembled molecular coatings enable 50-mV operation of ultra-small mechanical relays for low-power digital computing.

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Fig. 1: Electronic and mechanical switch characteristics.

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Barniol, N. Mechanical relays for digital circuits. Nat Electron 1, 616–617 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0181-2

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