{"id":113698,"date":"2020-10-01T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/new-design-principles-for-spin-based-quantum-materials"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:35:17","slug":"new-design-principles-for-spin-based-quantum-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/new-design-principles-for-spin-based-quantum-materials","title":{"rendered":"New design principles for spin-based quantum materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-design-principles-for-spin-based-quantum-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As our lives become increasingly intertwined with technology\u2014whether supporting communication while working remotely or streaming our favorite show\u2014so too does our reliance on the data these devices create. Data centers supporting these technology ecosystems produce a significant carbon footprint\u2014and consume 200 terawatt hours of energy each year, greater than the annual energy consumption of Iran. To balance ecological concerns yet meet growing demand, advances in microelectronic processors\u2014the backbone of many Internet of Things (IoT) devices and data hubs\u2014must be efficient and environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Northwestern University materials scientists have developed new design principles that could help spur development of future quantum materials used to advance (IoT) devices and other resource-intensive technologies while limiting ecological damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew path-breaking materials and computing paradigms are required to make <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/data+centers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">data centers<\/a> more energy-lean in the future,\u201d said James Rondinelli, professor of materials science and engineering and the Morris E. Fine Professor in Materials and Manufacturing at the McCormick School of Engineering, who led the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our lives become increasingly intertwined with technology\u2014whether supporting communication while working remotely or streaming our favorite show\u2014so too does our reliance on the data these devices create. Data centers supporting these technology ecosystems produce a significant carbon footprint\u2014and consume 200 terawatt hours of energy each year, greater than the annual energy consumption of Iran. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113698","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=113698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}