{"id":221761,"date":"2025-09-12T04:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/nano-switch-achieves-first-directed-gated-flow-of-excitons"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:27:11","slug":"nano-switch-achieves-first-directed-gated-flow-of-excitons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/nano-switch-achieves-first-directed-gated-flow-of-excitons","title":{"rendered":"Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of excitons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-switch-achieves-first-directed-gated-flow-of-excitons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new nanostructure acts like a wire and switch that can, for the first time, control and direct the flow of quantum quasiparticles called excitons at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The transistor-like switch developed by University of Michigan engineers could speed up <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/information+transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">information transfer<\/a> or even enable circuits that run on excitons instead of electricity\u2014paving the way for a new class of devices.<\/p>\n<p>Because they have no <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+charge\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical charge<\/a>, excitons have the potential to move <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a> without the losses that come with moving electrically charged particles like electrons. These losses drive cell phones and computers to generate heat during use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new nanostructure acts like a wire and switch that can, for the first time, control and direct the flow of quantum quasiparticles called excitons at room temperature. The transistor-like switch developed by University of Michigan engineers could speed up information transfer or even enable circuits that run on excitons instead of electricity\u2014paving the way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221761","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=221761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}