{"id":157512,"date":"2023-02-10T01:24:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T07:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/mit-engineers-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials"},"modified":"2023-02-10T01:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T07:24:49","slug":"mit-engineers-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/mit-engineers-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials","title":{"rendered":"MIT Engineers Grow \u201cPerfect\u201d Atom-Thin Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-grow-perfect-atom-thin-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adhering to Moore\u2019s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled annually since the 1960s, but this growth is expected to reach its limit as silicon, the foundation of modern transistors, loses its electrical properties when devices made from it dip below a certain size.<\/p>\n<p>Enter 2D materials \u2014 delicate, two-dimensional sheets of perfect crystals that are as thin as a single atom.<\/p>\n<p>An atom is the smallest component of an element. It is made up of protons and neutrons within the nucleus, and electrons circling the nucleus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adhering to Moore\u2019s Law, the number of transistors on a microchip has doubled annually since the 1960s, but this growth is expected to reach its limit as silicon, the foundation of modern transistors, loses its electrical properties when devices made from it dip below a certain size. Enter 2D materials \u2014 delicate, two-dimensional sheets of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157512","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\/157512","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=157512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}