{"id":122580,"date":"2021-05-14T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/advance-may-enable-2d-transistors-for-tinier-microchip-components"},"modified":"2021-05-14T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:22:57","slug":"advance-may-enable-2d-transistors-for-tinier-microchip-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/advance-may-enable-2d-transistors-for-tinier-microchip-components","title":{"rendered":"Advance may enable 2D transistors for tinier microchip components"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/advance-may-enable-2d-transistors-for-tinier-microchip-components.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s Law, the famous prediction that the number of transistors that can be packed onto a microchip will double every couple of years, has been bumping into basic physical limits. These limits could bring decades of progress to a halt, unless new approaches are found.<\/p>\n<p>One new direction being explored is the use of atomically <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/thin+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thin materials<\/a> instead of silicon as the basis for new transistors, but connecting those \u201c2D\u201d materials to other conventional electronic components has proved difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, and elsewhere have found a new way of making those <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+connections\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical connections<\/a>, which could help to unleash the potential of 2D materials and further the miniaturization of components\u2014possibly enough to extend Moore\u2019s Law, at least for the near future, the researchers say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moore\u2019s Law, the famous prediction that the number of transistors that can be packed onto a microchip will double every couple of years, has been bumping into basic physical limits. These limits could bring decades of progress to a halt, unless new approaches are found. One new direction being explored is the use of atomically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122580","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}