{"id":158600,"date":"2023-02-20T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/two-dimensional-oxides-open-door-for-high-speed-electronics"},"modified":"2023-02-20T20:24:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T02:24:33","slug":"two-dimensional-oxides-open-door-for-high-speed-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/two-dimensional-oxides-open-door-for-high-speed-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Two-dimensional oxides open door for high-speed electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-dimensional-oxides-open-door-for-high-speed-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advances in computing power over the decades have come thanks in part to our ability to make smaller and smaller transistors, a building block of electronic devices, but we are nearing the limit of the silicon materials typically used. A new technique for creating 2D oxide materials may pave the way for future high-speed electronics, according to an international team of scientists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne way we can make our transistors, our <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electronic+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic devices<\/a>, work faster is to shrink the distance electrons have to travel between point A and B,\u201d said Joshua Robinson, professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State. \u201cYou can only go so far with 3D materials like silicon\u2014once you shrink it down to a nanometer, its properties change. So there\u2019s been a massive push looking at new materials, one of which are 2D materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Furkan Turker, graduate student in the Department of Materials Sciences, used a technique called confinement hetroepitaxy, or CHet, to create 2D oxides, materials with special properties that can serve as an atomically thin insulating layer between layers of electrically conducting materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advances in computing power over the decades have come thanks in part to our ability to make smaller and smaller transistors, a building block of electronic devices, but we are nearing the limit of the silicon materials typically used. A new technique for creating 2D oxide materials may pave the way for future high-speed electronics, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158600","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}