{"id":209449,"date":"2025-03-21T17:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/tellurium-boosts-2d-semiconductor-performance-for-faster-photodetection"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:10:44","slug":"tellurium-boosts-2d-semiconductor-performance-for-faster-photodetection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/tellurium-boosts-2d-semiconductor-performance-for-faster-photodetection","title":{"rendered":"Tellurium boosts 2D semiconductor performance for faster photodetection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tellurium-boosts-2d-semiconductor-performance-for-faster-photodetection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently devised a method allowing them to create large amounts of a material required to make two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with record high performance. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acsami.4c14865\" target=\"_blank\">Their paper<\/a>, published in <i>ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces<\/i> in late December 2024, could lead to more efficient and tunable photodetectors, paving the way for the next generation of light-sensing and multifunctional optoelectronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSemiconductors are the key enabling technology for today\u2019s electronics, from laptops to smartphones to AI applications,\u201d said Xu Zhang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. \u201cThey control the flow of electricity, acting as a bridge between conductors (which allow electricity to flow freely) and insulators (which block it).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zhang\u2019s research group wanted to develop a certain kind of photodetector, a device capable of detecting light and which can be used in a variety of applications. To create this photodetector, the group needed to use materials that were an atom\u2019s-width thick, or as close to 2D as is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently devised a method allowing them to create large amounts of a material required to make two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with record high performance. Their paper, published in ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces in late December 2024, could lead to more efficient and tunable photodetectors, paving the way for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209449","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=209449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}