{"id":116891,"date":"2020-12-09T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/discovery-suggests-new-promise-for-nonsilicon-computer-transistors"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:22:39","slug":"discovery-suggests-new-promise-for-nonsilicon-computer-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/discovery-suggests-new-promise-for-nonsilicon-computer-transistors","title":{"rendered":"Discovery suggests new promise for nonsilicon computer transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-suggests-new-promise-for-nonsilicon-computer-transistors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, one material has so dominated the production of computer chips and transistors that the tech capital of the world\u2014Silicon Valley\u2014bears its name. But silicon\u2019s reign may not last forever.<\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have found that an alloy called InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) could hold the potential for smaller and more energy efficient <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/transistors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transistors<\/a>. Previously, researchers thought that the performance of InGaAs transistors deteriorated at small scales. But the new study shows this apparent deterioration is not an intrinsic property of the material itself.<\/p>\n<p>The finding could one day help push computing power and efficiency beyond what\u2019s possible with silicon. \u201cWe\u2019re really excited,\u201d said Xiaowei Cai, the study\u2019s lead author. \u201cWe hope this result will encourage the community to continue exploring the use of InGaAs as a channel material for transistors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, one material has so dominated the production of computer chips and transistors that the tech capital of the world\u2014Silicon Valley\u2014bears its name. But silicon\u2019s reign may not last forever. MIT researchers have found that an alloy called InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) could hold the potential for smaller and more energy efficient transistors. Previously, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116891","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=116891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}