{"id":220593,"date":"2025-08-21T04:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/growing-ultrathin-semiconductors-directly-on-electronics-could-eliminate-a-fragile-manufacturing-step"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:32:02","slug":"growing-ultrathin-semiconductors-directly-on-electronics-could-eliminate-a-fragile-manufacturing-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/growing-ultrathin-semiconductors-directly-on-electronics-could-eliminate-a-fragile-manufacturing-step","title":{"rendered":"Growing ultrathin semiconductors directly on electronics could eliminate a fragile manufacturing step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/growing-ultrathin-semiconductors-directly-on-electronics-could-eliminate-a-fragile-manufacturing-step.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of materials scientists at Rice University has developed a new way to grow ultrathin semiconductors directly onto electronic components.<\/p>\n<p>The method, described in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsaelm.5c00828\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i><i>ACS Applied Electronic Materials<\/i>,<\/i> could help streamline the integration of two-dimensional materials into next-generation electronics, neuromorphic computing and other technologies demanding ultrathin high-speed semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/chemical+vapor+deposition\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical vapor deposition<\/a> (CVD) to grow tungsten diselenide, a 2D semiconductor, directly onto patterned gold electrodes. They next demonstrated the approach by building a functional, proof-of-concept transistor. Unlike conventional techniques that require transferring fragile 2D films from one surface to another, the Rice team\u2019s method eliminates the transfer process entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of materials scientists at Rice University has developed a new way to grow ultrathin semiconductors directly onto electronic components. The method, described in a study published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials, could help streamline the integration of two-dimensional materials into next-generation electronics, neuromorphic computing and other technologies demanding ultrathin high-speed semiconductors. The researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220593","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=220593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}