{"id":11967,"date":"2014-08-02T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11967"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:13:42","slug":"a-transistor-material-intended-to-replace-silicon-by-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/a-transistor-material-intended-to-replace-silicon-by-2024","title":{"rendered":"A transistor material intended to replace silicon by 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuzweil AI<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/viterbi.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Viterbi School of Engineering<\/a> researchers have developed a flexible, transparent, energy-efficient, lower-cost hybrid design that could replace silicon as the traditional transistor material used in electronic chips.<\/p>\n<p>The new design, described in a paper recently published in <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, combines carbon nanotube thin-film transistors with thin-film transistors comprised of indium, gallium and zinc oxide (IGZO).<\/p>\n<p>Electrical engineering professor Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/ee.usc.edu\/faculty_staff\/faculty_directory\/zhou.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chongwu Zhou<\/a> and USC Viterbi graduate students Haitian Chen, Yu Cao, and Jialu Zhang developed this energy-efficient circuit by integrating carbon nanotube (CNT) thin film transistors (TFT) <\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of IGZO thin film transistors was necessary to provide power efficiency to increase battery life. If only carbon nanotubes had been used, the circuits would not be power-efficient.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-transistor-material-intended-to-replace-silicon-by-2024\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuzweil AI USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers have developed a flexible, transparent, energy-efficient, lower-cost hybrid design that could replace silicon as the traditional transistor material used in electronic chips. The new design, described in a paper recently published in Nature Communications, combines carbon nanotube thin-film transistors with thin-film transistors comprised of indium, gallium and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46941,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions\/46941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}