{"id":222620,"date":"2025-09-28T20:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/in-a-first-scientists-observe-short-range-order-in-semiconductors"},"modified":"2025-09-28T20:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:05:51","slug":"in-a-first-scientists-observe-short-range-order-in-semiconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/in-a-first-scientists-observe-short-range-order-in-semiconductors","title":{"rendered":"In a first, scientists observe short-range order in semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g8Qav3vIv9s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inside the microchips powering your devices, atoms aren\u2019t just randomly scattered. They follow a hidden order that can change how semiconductors behave.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and George Washington University has, for the first time, observed these tiny patterns, called short-range order (SRO), directly in semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery is a game-changer, as understanding how atoms naturally arrange themselves could let researchers design materials with desirable electronic properties. Such control could revolutionize quantum computing, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/neuromorphic-computing-how-the-brain-inspired-technology-powers-the-next-generation-of-artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">neuromorphic devices<\/a> that mimic the brain, and advanced optical detectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the microchips powering your devices, atoms aren\u2019t just randomly scattered. They follow a hidden order that can change how semiconductors behave. A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and George Washington University has, for the first time, observed these tiny patterns, called short-range order (SRO), directly in semiconductors. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222620","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}