{"id":179211,"date":"2023-12-26T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/negative-capacitance-could-bring-more-efficient-transistors"},"modified":"2023-12-26T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T21:46:11","slug":"negative-capacitance-could-bring-more-efficient-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/negative-capacitance-could-bring-more-efficient-transistors","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Negative capacitance\u2019 could bring more efficient transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/negative-capacitance-could-bring-more-efficient-transistors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have experimentally demonstrated how to harness a property called negative capacitance for a new type of transistor that could reduce power consumption, validating a theory proposed in 2008 by a team at Purdue University.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used an extremely thin, or 2-D, layer of the semiconductor molybdenum disulfide to make a channel adjacent to a critical part of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/transistors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transistors<\/a> called the gate. Then they used a \u201cferroelectric material\u201d called hafnium zirconium oxide to create a key component in the newly designed gate called a negative capacitor.<\/p>\n<p>Capacitance, or the storage of electrical charge, normally has a positive value. However, using the ferroelectric material in a transistor\u2019s gate allows for negative capacitance, which could result in far <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lower+power+consumption\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lower power consumption<\/a> to operate a transistor. Such an innovation could bring more efficient devices that run longer on a battery charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have experimentally demonstrated how to harness a property called negative capacitance for a new type of transistor that could reduce power consumption, validating a theory proposed in 2008 by a team at Purdue University. The researchers used an extremely thin, or 2-D, layer of the semiconductor molybdenum disulfide to make a channel adjacent to [\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-179211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179211","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=179211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}