{"id":222340,"date":"2025-09-23T19:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/next-generation-nanoengineered-switches-can-cut-heat-loss-in-electronics"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:11:55","slug":"next-generation-nanoengineered-switches-can-cut-heat-loss-in-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/next-generation-nanoengineered-switches-can-cut-heat-loss-in-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Next-generation nanoengineered switches can cut heat loss in electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/next-generation-nanoengineered-switches-can-cut-heat-loss-in-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronic devices lose energy as heat due to the movement of electrons. Now, a breakthrough in nanoengineering has produced a new kind of switch that matches the performance of the best traditional designs while pushing beyond the power-consumption limits of modern electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Michigan have achieved what scientists have been trying to execute for a long time: designing electronics that harness excitons\u2014pairs of an electron and a corresponding hole (a missing electron) bound together forming a charge-neutral particle\u2014instead of electrons.<\/p>\n<p>The newly designed nanoengineered optoexcitonics (NEO) device featured a tungsten diselenide (WSe2) monolayer on a tapered silicon dioxide (SiO2) nanoridge. The switch achieved a 66% reduction in losses compared to traditional switches while surpassing an on\u2013off ratio of 19 dB at room temperature, a performance that rivals the best electronic switches available on the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic devices lose energy as heat due to the movement of electrons. Now, a breakthrough in nanoengineering has produced a new kind of switch that matches the performance of the best traditional designs while pushing beyond the power-consumption limits of modern electronics. Researchers from the University of Michigan have achieved what scientists have been trying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222340","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}