{"id":155814,"date":"2023-01-19T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials-on-industrial-silicon-wafers"},"modified":"2023-01-19T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:22:47","slug":"scientists-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials-on-industrial-silicon-wafers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials-on-industrial-silicon-wafers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists grow \u2018perfect\u2019 atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials-on-industrial-silicon-wafers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>True to Moore\u2019s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to soon plateau because silicon\u2014the backbone of modern transistors\u2014loses its electrical properties once devices made from this material dip below a certain size.<\/p>\n<p>Enter 2D materials\u2014delicate, two-dimensional sheets of perfect crystals that are as thin as a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single+atom\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single atom<\/a>. At the scale of nanometers, 2D materials can conduct electrons far more efficiently than silicon. The search for next-generation transistor materials therefore has focused on 2D materials as potential successors to silicon.<\/p>\n<p>But before the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electronics+industry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronics industry<\/a> can transition to 2D materials, scientists have to first find a way to engineer the materials on industry-standard <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silicon+wafers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon wafers<\/a> while preserving their perfect crystalline form. And MIT engineers may now have a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True to Moore\u2019s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled every year since the 1960s. But this trajectory is predicted to soon plateau because silicon\u2014the backbone of modern transistors\u2014loses its electrical properties once devices made from this material dip below a certain size. Enter 2D materials\u2014delicate, two-dimensional sheets of perfect crystals that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155814","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\/155814","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=155814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}