{"id":222377,"date":"2025-09-24T03:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/engineers-develop-a-magnetic-transistor-for-more-energy-efficient-electronics"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:41:25","slug":"engineers-develop-a-magnetic-transistor-for-more-energy-efficient-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/engineers-develop-a-magnetic-transistor-for-more-energy-efficient-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-a-magnetic-transistor-for-more-energy-efficient-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it\u2019s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physical limits that restrict how compact and energy-efficient a transistor can be.<\/p>\n<p>MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a magnetic transistor that could enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient circuits. The material\u2019s magnetism strongly influences its electronic behavior, leading to more efficient control of the flow of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The team used a novel magnetic material and an optimization process that reduces the material\u2019s defects, which boosts the transistor\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it\u2019s a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has fundamental physical limits that restrict how compact and energy-efficient a transistor can be. MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222377","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=222377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}