{"id":214408,"date":"2025-05-21T05:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-discover-one-of-the-worlds-thinnest-semiconductor-junctions-forming-inside-a-quantum-material"},"modified":"2025-05-21T05:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:21:35","slug":"scientists-discover-one-of-the-worlds-thinnest-semiconductor-junctions-forming-inside-a-quantum-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientists-discover-one-of-the-worlds-thinnest-semiconductor-junctions-forming-inside-a-quantum-material","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover one of the world\u2019s thinnest semiconductor junctions forming inside a quantum material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-one-of-the-worlds-thinnest-semiconductor-junctions-forming-inside-a-quantum-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists studying a promising quantum material have stumbled upon a surprise: within its crystal structure, the material naturally forms one of the world\u2019s thinnest semiconductor junctions\u2014a building block of most modern electronics. The junction is just 3.3 nanometers thick, about 25,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a big surprise,\u201d said Asst. Prof. Shuolong Yang. \u201cWe weren\u2019t trying to make this junction, but the material made one on its own, and it\u2019s one of the thinnest we\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The discovery offers a way to build ultra-miniaturized electronic components, and also provides insight into how electrons behave in materials designed for quantum applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists studying a promising quantum material have stumbled upon a surprise: within its crystal structure, the material naturally forms one of the world\u2019s thinnest semiconductor junctions\u2014a building block of most modern electronics. The junction is just 3.3 nanometers thick, about 25,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper. \u201cThis was a big surprise,\u201d said Asst. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214408","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=214408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}