{"id":137149,"date":"2022-03-20T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/transistor-gate-is-just-0-3-nm-long"},"modified":"2022-03-20T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:05:01","slug":"transistor-gate-is-just-0-3-nm-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/transistor-gate-is-just-0-3-nm-long","title":{"rendered":"Transistor gate is just 0.3 nm long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transistor-gate-is-just-0-3-nm-long2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoore\u2019s law could once again get a reprieve, in spite of the naysayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Using graphene and molybdenum disulphide, scientists in China have made a transistor gate with a length of only 0.3 nanometres, equivalent to just one carbon atom, by exploiting the vertical aspect of the device.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1959, scientists at Bell Labs invented the metal\u2013oxide\u2013semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). This led to mass-production of transistors for a wide range of applications \u2013 including computer processors. The Intel 4,004, the first commercially produced microprocessor, debuted in 1971 and featured 2,250 transistors on a single chip, using a 10,000 nm (10 \u00b5m) fabrication process.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, the MOSFET has become the most widely manufactured device in history. Thanks to vast improvements in miniaturisation, the latest processors now contain <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transistor_count#Microprocessors\" target=\"_blank\">114 billion transistors<\/a>, making them 50 million times more powerful than the Intel 4004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMoore\u2019s law could once again get a reprieve, in spite of the naysayers.\u201d Using graphene and molybdenum disulphide, scientists in China have made a transistor gate with a length of only 0.3 nanometres, equivalent to just one carbon atom, by exploiting the vertical aspect of the device. In 1959, scientists at Bell Labs invented the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137149","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\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}