{"id":193984,"date":"2024-08-03T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-transistors-superlative-properties-could-have-broad-electronics-applications"},"modified":"2024-08-03T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:22:27","slug":"new-transistors-superlative-properties-could-have-broad-electronics-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/new-transistors-superlative-properties-could-have-broad-electronics-applications","title":{"rendered":"New transistor\u2019s superlative properties could have broad electronics applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-transistors-superlative-properties-could-have-broad-electronics-applications3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, a team led by MIT physicists reported creating a new ultrathin ferroelectric material, or one where positive and negative charges separate into different layers. At the time, they noted the material\u2019s potential for applications in computer memory and much more. Now the same core team and colleagues\u2014including two from the lab next door\u2014have built a transistor with that material and shown that its properties are so useful that it could change the world of electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Although the team\u2019s results are based on a single transistor in the lab, \u201cin several aspects its properties already meet or exceed industry standards\u201d for the ferroelectric transistors produced today, says Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, who led the work with professor of physics Raymond Ashoori. Both are also affiliated with the Materials Research Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my lab we primarily do <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/fundamental+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fundamental physics<\/a>. This is one of the first, and perhaps most dramatic, examples of how very basic science has led to something that could have a major impact on applications,\u201d Jarillo-Herrero says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, a team led by MIT physicists reported creating a new ultrathin ferroelectric material, or one where positive and negative charges separate into different layers. At the time, they noted the material\u2019s potential for applications in computer memory and much more. Now the same core team and colleagues\u2014including two from the lab next door\u2014have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193984","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=193984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}