{"id":135719,"date":"2022-02-16T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/exciton-surfing-could-enable-next-gen-energy-computing-and-communications-tech"},"modified":"2022-02-16T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:23:00","slug":"exciton-surfing-could-enable-next-gen-energy-computing-and-communications-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/exciton-surfing-could-enable-next-gen-energy-computing-and-communications-tech","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Exciton surfing\u2019 could enable next-gen energy, computing and communications tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exciton-surfing-could-enable-next-gen-energy-computing-and-communications-tech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quasiparticle that forms in semiconductors can now be moved around at room temperature, a University of Michigan-led study has shown. The finding could cool down computers, enabling faster speeds and higher efficiencies, and potentially make LEDs and solar panels more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s electronic devices rely on electrons to move both energy and information around, but about half of that energy is wasted as heat due to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+resistance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical resistance<\/a>. Excitons, which escape traditional electrical losses, are one potential alternative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think of the past almost two decades, the computers have always been at two to three gigahertz\u2014they never increase the speed. And that\u2019s the reason. It just gets too hot,\u201d said Parag Deotare, assistant professor of electrical engineering and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer<\/a> science and corresponding author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quasiparticle that forms in semiconductors can now be moved around at room temperature, a University of Michigan-led study has shown. The finding could cool down computers, enabling faster speeds and higher efficiencies, and potentially make LEDs and solar panels more efficient. Today\u2019s electronic devices rely on electrons to move both energy and information around, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135719","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}