{"id":150941,"date":"2022-11-24T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/atomic-transistors-based-on-seamless-lateral-metal-semiconductor-junctions-with-sub-1-nm-transfer-length"},"modified":"2022-11-24T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T06:22:21","slug":"atomic-transistors-based-on-seamless-lateral-metal-semiconductor-junctions-with-sub-1-nm-transfer-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/atomic-transistors-based-on-seamless-lateral-metal-semiconductor-junctions-with-sub-1-nm-transfer-length","title":{"rendered":"Atomic transistors based on seamless lateral metal-semiconductor junctions with sub-1-nm transfer length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-transistors-based-on-seamless-lateral-metal-semiconductor-junctions-with-sub-1-nm-transfer-length2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study, affiliated with South Korea\u2019s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has reported a scalable synthetic strategy to fabricate low-resistance edge contacts to atomic transistors using a thermally stable 2D metal, namely PtTe<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p>Developing cheaper, smaller, and better-performing semiconductors with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> other than <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/silicon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon<\/a> (Si), is expected to gain <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/momentum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">momentum<\/a>, thanks to a recent study from UNIST. This will aid in reducing the space between semiconductors and metals within <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/semiconductor+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">semiconductor devices<\/a> to \u223c1 nm, which could help maintain <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/high+performance\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the August 2022 issue of <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, this study has been jointly led by Professor Soon-Yong Kwon and Professor Zonghoon Lee in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study, affiliated with South Korea\u2019s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has reported a scalable synthetic strategy to fabricate low-resistance edge contacts to atomic transistors using a thermally stable 2D metal, namely PtTe2. Developing cheaper, smaller, and better-performing semiconductors with materials other than silicon (Si), is expected to gain momentum, thanks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150941","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=150941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}