{"id":208316,"date":"2025-03-11T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/ultra-thin-bismuth-holds-unexpected-promise-for-green-electronics"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:20:16","slug":"ultra-thin-bismuth-holds-unexpected-promise-for-green-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/ultra-thin-bismuth-holds-unexpected-promise-for-green-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-thin bismuth holds unexpected promise for green electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-thin-bismuth-holds-unexpected-promise-for-green-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronic devices rely on materials whose electrical properties change with temperature, making them less stable in extreme conditions. A discovery by McGill University researchers that challenges conventional wisdom in physics suggests that bismuth, a metal, could serve as the foundation for highly stable electronic components.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers observed a mysterious electrical effect in ultra-thin <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bismuth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bismuth<\/a> that remains unchanged across a wide temperature range, from near absolute zero (&minus;273\u00b0C) to room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can harness this, it could become important for green electronics,\u201d said Guillaume Gervais, a professor of physics at McGill and co-author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic devices rely on materials whose electrical properties change with temperature, making them less stable in extreme conditions. A discovery by McGill University researchers that challenges conventional wisdom in physics suggests that bismuth, a metal, could serve as the foundation for highly stable electronic components. The researchers observed a mysterious electrical effect in ultra-thin bismuth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208316","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}