{"id":184318,"date":"2024-03-03T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mixed-dimensional-transistors-enable-high-performance-multifunctional-electronic-devices"},"modified":"2024-03-03T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T19:22:26","slug":"mixed-dimensional-transistors-enable-high-performance-multifunctional-electronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mixed-dimensional-transistors-enable-high-performance-multifunctional-electronic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-dimensional transistors enable high-performance multifunctional electronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mixed-dimensional-transistors-enable-high-performance-multifunctional-electronic-devices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The downscaling of electronic devices, such as transistors, has reached a plateau, posing challenges for semiconductor fabrication. However, a research team led by materials scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently discovered a new strategy for developing highly versatile electronics with outstanding performance using transistors made of mixed-dimensional nanowires and nanoflakes.<\/p>\n<p>This innovation paves the way for simplified chip circuit design, offering versatility and low power dissipation in future electronics. The findings, titled \u201cMultifunctional anti-ambipolar electronics enabled by mixed-dimensional 1D GaAsSb\/2D MoS<sub>2<\/sub> heterotransistors,\u201d were <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2666998623003022\">published<\/a> in the journal Device.<\/p>\n<p>In recent decades, as the continuous scaling of transistors and integrated circuits has started to reach physical and economic limits, fabricating <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/semiconductor+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">semiconductor devices<\/a> in a controllable and cost-effective manner has become challenging. Further scaling of transistor size increases current leakage and thus power dissipation. Complex wiring networks also have an adverse impact on power consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The downscaling of electronic devices, such as transistors, has reached a plateau, posing challenges for semiconductor fabrication. However, a research team led by materials scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently discovered a new strategy for developing highly versatile electronics with outstanding performance using transistors made of mixed-dimensional nanowires and nanoflakes. This innovation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-economics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184318","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=184318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}