{"id":113757,"date":"2020-10-02T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/radiation-immune-and-repairable-chips-to-fabricate-durable-electronics"},"modified":"2020-10-02T23:27:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:27:34","slug":"radiation-immune-and-repairable-chips-to-fabricate-durable-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/radiation-immune-and-repairable-chips-to-fabricate-durable-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Radiation-immune and repairable chips to fabricate durable electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/radiation-immune-and-repairable-chips-to-fabricate-durable-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To operate safely and reliably in outdoor environments, electronic devices should be resistant to a wide variety of external factors, including radiation. In fact, high-energy radiation can damage several components of field-effect transistors (FETs) commonly used to make electronics, including their superconducting channel, gate oxide and the insulating materials surrounding it (e.g., isolation or substrate oxides).<\/p>\n<p>For several years, research teams worldwide have thus been trying to devise strategies that could make <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/transistors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transistors<\/a> more resistant to radiation. So far, however, this has proved to be highly challenging, and only a few of the techniques proposed in the past have achieved promising results.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Tech University have recently fabricated a radiation-hardened and repairable integrated circuit (IC) based on carbon nanotube transistors with ion gel <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/gates\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gates<\/a>. This IC, first presented in a paper pre-published in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i>, could be used to build new <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electronic+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic devices<\/a> that are more resistant to high-energy radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To operate safely and reliably in outdoor environments, electronic devices should be resistant to a wide variety of external factors, including radiation. In fact, high-energy radiation can damage several components of field-effect transistors (FETs) commonly used to make electronics, including their superconducting channel, gate oxide and the insulating materials surrounding it (e.g., isolation or substrate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113757","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=113757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}