{"id":190351,"date":"2024-05-30T00:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T05:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/water-based-circuit-concept-switches-much-faster-than-semiconductors"},"modified":"2024-05-30T00:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T05:23:57","slug":"water-based-circuit-concept-switches-much-faster-than-semiconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/water-based-circuit-concept-switches-much-faster-than-semiconductors","title":{"rendered":"Water-based circuit concept switches much faster than semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-based-circuit-concept-switches-much-faster-than-semiconductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water is usually something you\u2019d want to keep away from electronic circuits, but engineers in Germany have now developed a new concept for water-based switches that are much faster than current semiconductor materials.<\/p>\n<p>Transistors are a fundamental component of electronic systems, and in a basic sense they process data by switching between conductive and non-conductive states \u2013 zeroes and ones \u2013 as the semiconductor materials in them encounter electrical currents. The speed of this switching (along with the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/computers\/ibm-2-nm-chips-transistors\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">number of transistors<\/a> in a chip) is a primary factor in how fast a computer system can be.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at Ruhr University Bochum have developed a new type of circuit that can switch much faster than existing semiconductor materials. The key ingredient is, surprisingly, water, with iodide ions dissolved into it to make it salty. A custom-made nozzle fans this water out into a flattened jet only a few microns thick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water is usually something you\u2019d want to keep away from electronic circuits, but engineers in Germany have now developed a new concept for water-based switches that are much faster than current semiconductor materials. Transistors are a fundamental component of electronic systems, and in a basic sense they process data by switching between conductive and non-conductive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190351","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}