{"id":178994,"date":"2023-12-24T00:44:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/team-develops-transistors-with-sliding-ferroelectricity-based-on-polarity-switchable-molybdenum-disulfide"},"modified":"2023-12-24T00:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T06:44:13","slug":"team-develops-transistors-with-sliding-ferroelectricity-based-on-polarity-switchable-molybdenum-disulfide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/team-develops-transistors-with-sliding-ferroelectricity-based-on-polarity-switchable-molybdenum-disulfide","title":{"rendered":"Team develops transistors with sliding ferroelectricity based on polarity-switchable molybdenum disulfide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-develops-transistors-with-sliding-ferroelectricity-based-on-polarity-switchable-molybdenum-disulfide3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, engineers have been trying to devise alternative hardware designs that would allow a single device to both perform computations and store data. These emerging electronics, known as computing-in-memory devices, could have numerous advantages, including faster speeds and enhanced data analysis capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>To store data safely and retain a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/low+power+consumption\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">low power consumption<\/a>, these devices should be based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ferroelectric+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ferroelectric materials<\/a> with advantageous properties and that can be scaled down in terms of thickness. Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors that exhibit a property known as sliding ferroelectricity have been found to be promising candidates for realizing computing-in-memory, yet attaining the necessary switchable electric polarization in these materials can prove difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and National Cheng Kung University recently devised an effective strategy to achieve a switchable electric polarization in molybdenum disulfide (MoS<sub>2<\/sub>). Using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-023-01073-0\">this method<\/a>, outlined in a <i>Nature Electronics<\/i> paper, they ultimately developed new promising ferroelectric transistors for computing-in-memory applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, engineers have been trying to devise alternative hardware designs that would allow a single device to both perform computations and store data. These emerging electronics, known as computing-in-memory devices, could have numerous advantages, including faster speeds and enhanced data analysis capabilities. To store data safely and retain a low power [\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-178994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178994","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=178994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}