{"id":122868,"date":"2021-05-22T06:19:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nanotechnology-advance-enables-tinier-transistors-with-extraordinary-performance"},"modified":"2021-05-22T06:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:19:31","slug":"nanotechnology-advance-enables-tinier-transistors-with-extraordinary-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nanotechnology-advance-enables-tinier-transistors-with-extraordinary-performance","title":{"rendered":"Nanotechnology Advance Enables Tinier Transistors With Extraordinary Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanotechnology-advance-enables-tinier-transistors-with-extraordinary-performance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Atomically thin materials are a promising alternative to silicon-based transistors; now researchers can connect them more efficiently to other chip elements.<\/strong><\/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 thin materials 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atomically thin materials are a promising alternative to silicon-based transistors; now researchers can connect them more efficiently to other chip elements. 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122868","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=122868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}