{"id":144262,"date":"2022-08-16T12:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/team-reports-giant-response-of-semiconductors-to-light"},"modified":"2022-08-16T12:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T17:49:55","slug":"team-reports-giant-response-of-semiconductors-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/team-reports-giant-response-of-semiconductors-to-light","title":{"rendered":"Team reports giant response of semiconductors to light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-reports-giant-response-of-semiconductors-to-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an example of the adage \u201ceverything old is new again,\u201d MIT engineers report a new discovery in semiconductors, well-known materials that have been the focus of intense study for over 100 years thanks to their many applications in electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>The team found that these important materials not only become much stiffer in response to light, but the effect is reversible when the light is turned off. The engineers also explain what is happening at the atomic scale, and show how the effect can be tuned by making the materials in a certain way\u2014introducing specific defects\u2014and using different colors and intensities of light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited about these results because we\u2019ve uncovered a new scientific direction in an otherwise very well-trod field. In addition, we found that the phenomenon may be present in many other compounds,\u201d says Rafael Jaramillo, the Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Materials <i>Science<\/i> and Engineering at MIT and leader of the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an example of the adage \u201ceverything old is new again,\u201d MIT engineers report a new discovery in semiconductors, well-known materials that have been the focus of intense study for over 100 years thanks to their many applications in electronic devices. The team found that these important materials not only become much stiffer in response [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144262","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}