{"id":101485,"date":"2020-01-28T01:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T09:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/method-detects-defects-in-2-d-materials-for-future-electronics-sensors"},"modified":"2020-01-28T01:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T09:08:21","slug":"method-detects-defects-in-2-d-materials-for-future-electronics-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/method-detects-defects-in-2-d-materials-for-future-electronics-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Method detects defects in 2-D materials for future electronics, sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/method-detects-defects-in-2-d-materials-for-future-electronics-sensors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To further shrink electronic devices and to lower energy consumption, the semiconductor industry is interested in using 2-D materials, but manufacturers need a quick and accurate method for detecting defects in these materials to determine if the material is suitable for device manufacture. Now a team of researchers has developed a technique to quickly and sensitively characterize defects in 2-D materials.<\/p>\n<p>Two-dimensional materials are atomically thin, the most well-known being graphene, a single-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have struggled to make these 2-D materials without defects,\u201d said Mauricio Terrones, Verne M. Willaman Professor of Physics, Penn State. \u201cThat\u2019s the ultimate goal. We want to have a 2-D material on a four-inch wafer with at least an acceptable number of defects, but you want to evaluate it in a quick way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To further shrink electronic devices and to lower energy consumption, the semiconductor industry is interested in using 2-D materials, but manufacturers need a quick and accurate method for detecting defects in these materials to determine if the material is suitable for device manufacture. Now a team of researchers has developed a technique to quickly and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101485","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}