{"id":158759,"date":"2023-02-22T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T00:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-special-carbon-molecule-can-function-as-multiple-high-speed-switches-at-once"},"modified":"2023-02-22T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T00:23:31","slug":"a-special-carbon-molecule-can-function-as-multiple-high-speed-switches-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-special-carbon-molecule-can-function-as-multiple-high-speed-switches-at-once","title":{"rendered":"A special carbon molecule can function as multiple high-speed switches at once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-special-carbon-molecule-can-function-as-multiple-high-speed-switches-at-once2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, an international team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo\u2019s Institute for Solid State Physics, has demonstrated a switch, analogous to a transistor, made from a single molecule called fullerene.<\/p>\n<p>By using a carefully tuned laser pulse, the researchers are able to use <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fullerene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fullerene<\/a> to switch the path of an incoming electron in a predictable way. This switching process can be three to six orders of magnitude faster than <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/switches\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">switches<\/a> in microchips, depending on the laser pulses used. Fullerene switches in a network could produce a computer beyond what is possible with electronic transistors, and they could also lead to unprecedented levels of resolution in microscopic imaging devices.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 years ago, physicists discovered that molecules emit electrons in the presence of electric fields, and later on, in certain <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wavelengths+of+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wavelengths of light<\/a>. The electron emissions created patterns that enticed curiosity but eluded explanation. This has changed thanks to a new theoretical analysis, the ramification of which could not only lead to new high-tech applications, but also improve our ability to scrutinize the physical world itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, an international team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo\u2019s Institute for Solid State Physics, has demonstrated a switch, analogous to a transistor, made from a single molecule called fullerene. By using a carefully tuned laser pulse, the researchers are able to use fullerene to switch the path of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158759","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}