{"id":192246,"date":"2024-07-03T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/researchers-discover-way-to-grow-sub-nanometer-sized-transistors"},"modified":"2024-07-03T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:22:37","slug":"researchers-discover-way-to-grow-sub-nanometer-sized-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/researchers-discover-way-to-grow-sub-nanometer-sized-transistors","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover way to \u2018grow\u2019 sub-nanometer sized transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-way-to-grow-sub-nanometer-sized-transistors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Director JO Moon-Ho of the Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has implemented a novel method to achieve epitaxial growth of 1D metallic materials with a width of less than 1 nanometer (nm). The group applied this process to develop a new structure for 2D semiconductor logic circuits. Notably, they used the 1D metals as a gate electrode of the ultra-miniaturized transistor.<\/p>\n<p>This research was published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology (\u201cIntegrated 1D epitaxial mirror twin boundaries for ultra-scaled 2D MoS 2 field-effect transistors\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Integrated devices based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, which exhibit excellent properties even at the ultimate limit of material thickness down to the atomic scale, are a major focus of basic and applied research worldwide. However, realizing such ultra-miniaturized transistor devices that can control the electron movement within a few nanometers, let alone developing the manufacturing process for these integrated circuits, has been met with significant technical challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Director JO Moon-Ho of the Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has implemented a novel method to achieve epitaxial growth of 1D metallic materials with a width of less than 1 nanometer (nm). The group applied this process to develop a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192246","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=192246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}