{"id":150491,"date":"2022-11-18T20:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T02:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-build-a-working-camera-out-of-atomically-thin-semiconductors"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T02:22:59","slug":"researchers-build-a-working-camera-out-of-atomically-thin-semiconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-build-a-working-camera-out-of-atomically-thin-semiconductors","title":{"rendered":"Researchers build a working camera out of atomically thin semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-build-a-working-camera-out-of-atomically-thin-semiconductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the isolation of graphene, we\u2019ve identified a number of materials that form atomically thin sheets. Like graphene, some of these sheets are made of a single element; others form from chemicals where the atomic bonds naturally create a sheet-like structure. Many of these materials have distinct properties. While graphene is an excellent conductor of electricity, a number of others are semiconductors. And it\u2019s possible to tune their properties further based on how you arrange the layers of a multi-sheet stack.<\/p>\n<p>Given all those options, it shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone that researchers have figured out how to make electronics out of these materials, including <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2013\/03\/flash-memory-chip-built-out-of-single-atom-thick-components\/\">flash memory<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2022\/03\/a-transistor-made-using-two-atomically-thin-materials-sets-size-record\/\">the smallest transistors<\/a> ever made, by some measures. Most of these, however, are demonstrations of the ability to make the hardware\u2014they\u2019re not integrated into a useful device. But a team of researchers has now demonstrated that it\u2019s possible to go beyond simple demonstrations by building a 900-pixel imaging sensor using an atomically thin material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the isolation of graphene, we\u2019ve identified a number of materials that form atomically thin sheets. Like graphene, some of these sheets are made of a single element; others form from chemicals where the atomic bonds naturally create a sheet-like structure. Many of these materials have distinct properties. While graphene is an excellent conductor of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150491","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}