{"id":115300,"date":"2020-10-30T06:27:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-worlds-smallest-led-will-be-3-atoms-thick"},"modified":"2020-10-30T06:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:27:44","slug":"the-worlds-smallest-led-will-be-3-atoms-thick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/the-worlds-smallest-led-will-be-3-atoms-thick","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s smallest LED will be 3 atoms thick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-smallest-led-will-be-3-atoms-thick.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>LEDs have come a long ways. From the early 70s when a bulky LED watch cost thousands of dollars to LG\u2019s announcement last month that it had created an OLED TV as thin as a magazine, these glowing little bits of magic have become wonderfully cheap and impossibly small. But guess what: they\u2019re about to get much smaller.<\/p>\n<p>A team scientists from the University of Washington just built the world\u2019s thinnest possible LED for use as a light source in electronics. It\u2019s just three atoms thick. No, not three millimeters. Not three nanometers. Three atoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are 10,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair, yet the light they emit can be seen by standard measurement equipment,\u201d said Jason Ross, a UW materials scientist and graduate student who helped with the research. \u201cThis is a huge leap of miniaturization of technology, and because it\u2019s a semiconductor, you can do almost everything with it that is possible with existing, three-dimensional silicon technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015. LEDs have come a long ways. From the early 70s when a bulky LED watch cost thousands of dollars to LG\u2019s announcement last month that it had created an OLED TV as thin as a magazine, these glowing little bits of magic have become wonderfully cheap and impossibly small. But guess what: they\u2019re [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115300","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\/115300","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=115300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}