{"id":230806,"date":"2026-02-07T09:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/gesn-alloys-emerge-as-a-new-semiconductor-class-that-could-reshape-optoelectronics"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:29:47","slug":"gesn-alloys-emerge-as-a-new-semiconductor-class-that-could-reshape-optoelectronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/gesn-alloys-emerge-as-a-new-semiconductor-class-that-could-reshape-optoelectronics","title":{"rendered":"GeSn alloys emerge as a new semiconductor class that could reshape optoelectronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gesn-alloys-emerge-as-a-new-semiconductor-class-that-could-reshape-optoelectronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created a new type of material that could enable common electronic devices to work faster and use less energy, a study suggests. The findings indicate the material, which was until now thought near-impossible to make, can act as a highly effective semiconductor\u2014a key component of modern electrical devices.<\/p>\n<p>Using the new semiconductor in electronics such as computer processors or medical imaging devices could help them run more efficiently, the team says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created a new type of material that could enable common electronic devices to work faster and use less energy, a study suggests. The findings indicate the material, which was until now thought near-impossible to make, can act as a highly effective semiconductor\u2014a key component of modern electrical devices. Using the new semiconductor in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230806","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}