{"id":152973,"date":"2022-12-16T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-new-water-based-switch-is-thousands-of-times-faster-than-current-semiconductors"},"modified":"2022-12-16T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:30:20","slug":"a-new-water-based-switch-is-thousands-of-times-faster-than-current-semiconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-new-water-based-switch-is-thousands-of-times-faster-than-current-semiconductors","title":{"rendered":"A new water-based switch is thousands of times faster than current semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-water-based-switch-is-thousands-of-times-faster-than-current-semiconductors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water becomes conductive within one trillionth of a second.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a water-based switch that becomes conductive thousands of times faster than current state-of-art semiconductor-based switches. Such switches are used in computers, smartphones, and wireless communications.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, a short but powerful laser pulse converts the water into a conductive state within less than a trillionth of a second (10<sup>-12<\/sup> seconds), during which time it behaves almost like a metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water becomes conductive within one trillionth of a second. Researchers have developed a water-based switch that becomes conductive thousands of times faster than current state-of-art semiconductor-based switches. Such switches are used in computers, smartphones, and wireless communications. Essentially, a short but powerful laser pulse converts the water into a conductive state within less than a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152973","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}