{"id":174295,"date":"2023-10-16T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/tiny-memory-cell-withstands-extreme-temperatures-enables-smaller-and-better-semiconductors-for-microelectronics"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:23:18","slug":"tiny-memory-cell-withstands-extreme-temperatures-enables-smaller-and-better-semiconductors-for-microelectronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/tiny-memory-cell-withstands-extreme-temperatures-enables-smaller-and-better-semiconductors-for-microelectronics","title":{"rendered":"Tiny memory cell withstands extreme temperatures, enables smaller and better semiconductors for microelectronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-memory-cell-withstands-extreme-temperatures-enables-smaller-and-better-semiconductors-for-microelectronics3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials scientists at Kiel University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology in Itzehoe (ISIT) have cleared another hurdle in the development and structuring of new materials for next-generation semiconductor devices, such as novel memory cells.<\/p>\n<p>They have shown that ferroelectric aluminum scandium <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nitride<\/a> can be scaled down to a few nanometers and can store different states, making it suitable as a nanoswitch. In addition, they have proved aluminum scandium nitride to be a particularly stable and powerful semiconductor material for current technologies based on silicon, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/silicon+carbide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon carbide<\/a> and gallium nitride. In contrast to today\u2019s microelectronics, the material can withstand extreme temperatures of up to 1,000\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>This opens up applications such as information storage or sensors for combustion processes in engines or turbines in both the chemical industry and in the steel industry. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/advs.202302296\">The results<\/a> were published in the journal <i>Advanced Science<\/i>. The study was part of a research project that brings together basic research in materials development and applications in microelectronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials scientists at Kiel University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology in Itzehoe (ISIT) have cleared another hurdle in the development and structuring of new materials for next-generation semiconductor devices, such as novel memory cells. They have shown that ferroelectric aluminum scandium nitride can be scaled down to a few nanometers and can store [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174295","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}