{"id":101179,"date":"2020-01-21T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/coming-soon-to-a-processor-near-you-atom-thick-transistors%e2%80%a9"},"modified":"2020-01-21T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:04:10","slug":"coming-soon-to-a-processor-near-you-atom-thick-transistors%e2%80%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/coming-soon-to-a-processor-near-you-atom-thick-transistors%e2%80%a9","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon to a Processor Near You: Atom-Thick Transistors "},"content":{"rendered":"

Devices made with 2D semiconductors might start to appear sooner than you expected.<\/p>\n

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\nIf there\u2019s one thing about<\/strong> Moore\u2019s Law that\u2019s obvious to anyone, it\u2019s that transistors have been made smaller and smaller as the years went on. Scientists and engineers have taken that trend to an almost absurd limit during the past decade, creating devices that are made of one-atom-thick layers of material.<\/p>\n

The most famous of these materials is, of course, graphene<\/a>, a hexagonal honeycomb-shaped sheet of carbon with outstanding conductivity for both heat and electricity, odd optical abilities, and incredible mechanical strength. But as a substance with which to make transistors, graphene hasn\u2019t really delivered. With no natural bandgap\u2014the property that makes a semiconductor a semiconductor\u2014it\u2019s just not built for the job.<\/p>\n

Instead, scientists and engineers have been exploring the universe of transition metal dichalcogenides, which all have the chemical formula MX2. These are made up of one of more than a dozen transition metals (M) along with one of the three chalcogenides (X): sulfur, selenium, or tellurium. Tungsten disulfide, molybdenum diselenide, and a few others can be made in single-atom layers that (unlike graphene) are natural semiconductors. These materials offer the enticing prospect that we will be able to scale down transistors all the way to atom-thin components long after today\u2019s silicon technology has run its course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devices made with 2D semiconductors might start to appear sooner than you expected. If there\u2019s one thing about Moore\u2019s Law that\u2019s obvious to anyone, it\u2019s that transistors have been made smaller and smaller as the years went on. Scientists and engineers have taken that trend to an almost absurd limit during the past decade, creating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}