{"id":18052,"date":"2015-10-02T00:47:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T07:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/nanotube-electronics-could-replace-silicon-ibm-research-breakthrough"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:34:56","slug":"nanotube-electronics-could-replace-silicon-ibm-research-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/nanotube-electronics-could-replace-silicon-ibm-research-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Nanotube Electronics Could Replace Silicon \u2014 IBM Research Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanotube-electronics-could-replace-silicon-ibm-research-breakthrough.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>IBM <a href=\"https:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/47767.wss\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a major engineering breakthrough that could open the way to replacing silicon transistors with carbon nanotubes in future electronics and computing technologies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Silicon transistors have become dramatically smaller in the last decades following <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moore's_law\" target=\"_blank\">Moore\u2019s Law<\/a> \u2014 the observation that the number of transistors per unit area doubles every two tears. However, silicon transistor technology is approaching a point of physical limitation.<\/p>\n<p>With Moore\u2019s Law running out of steam, shrinking the size of transistors \u2014 including the channels and contacts \u2014 without compromising performance is a research and manufacturing challenge. Carbon nanotube technology could lead to much smaller transistors and keep electronics and computing devices on the Moore\u2019s Law of exponentially decreasing size and thus increasing performance. However, as devices become smaller, increased contact resistance for carbon nanotubes has hindered performance gains until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hacked.com\/nanotube-electronics-replace-silicon-ibm-research-breakthrough\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM announced a major engineering breakthrough that could open the way to replacing silicon transistors with carbon nanotubes in future electronics and computing technologies. Silicon transistors have become dramatically smaller in the last decades following Moore\u2019s Law \u2014 the observation that the number of transistors per unit area doubles every two tears. However, silicon transistor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64030,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18052\/revisions\/64030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}