{"id":116261,"date":"2020-11-23T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-create-electronic-gadget-powered-by-quantum-tunneling"},"modified":"2020-11-23T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:25:38","slug":"scientists-create-electronic-gadget-powered-by-quantum-tunneling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-create-electronic-gadget-powered-by-quantum-tunneling","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Electronic Gadget Powered by Quantum Tunneling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-electronic-gadget-powered-by-quantum-tunneling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Tiny Dancer<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chakrabartty\u2019s tunneling barrier was built in just such a way that \u201cyou can control the flow of electrons. You can make it reasonably slow, down to one electron every minute and still keep it reliable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team is hoping the technology could one day power glucose or even brain activity monitors without the need for batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny Dancer Chakrabartty\u2019s tunneling barrier was built in just such a way that \u201cyou can control the flow of electrons. You can make it reasonably slow, down to one electron every minute and still keep it reliable.\u201d The team is hoping the technology could one day power glucose or even brain activity monitors without the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116261","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=116261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}