{"id":105099,"date":"2020-04-10T12:06:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/researchers-develop-one-way-street-for-electrons"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:06:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T19:06:04","slug":"researchers-develop-one-way-street-for-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/researchers-develop-one-way-street-for-electrons","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop one-way street for electrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-one-way-street-for-electrons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a one-way street for electrons that may unlock the ability for devices to process ultra-high-speed wireless data and simultaneously harvest energy for power. The researchers did this by shaping silicon on a microscopic scale to create a funnel, or \u201cratchet,\u201d for electrons.<\/p>\n<p>This method overcomes the speed limitations of prior technologies by removing interfaces that tend to slow down devices.\u201d This work is exciting because it could enable a future where things like low-power smartwatches are wirelessly charged from the data they already receive without ever needing to a leave a person\u2019s wrist,\u201d said James Custer Jr., a doctoral student in UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s College of Arts &amp; <i>Science<\/i>s.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published April 10 in the journal <i>Science<\/i>. Custer is lead author. He worked with collaborators at Duke and Vanderbilt universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a one-way street for electrons that may unlock the ability for devices to process ultra-high-speed wireless data and simultaneously harvest energy for power. The researchers did this by shaping silicon on a microscopic scale to create a funnel, or \u201cratchet,\u201d for electrons. This method [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105099","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}