{"id":232831,"date":"2026-03-08T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/beyond-silicon-an-indium-selenide-roadmap-for-ultra-low-power-ai-and-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:14:07","slug":"beyond-silicon-an-indium-selenide-roadmap-for-ultra-low-power-ai-and-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/beyond-silicon-an-indium-selenide-roadmap-for-ultra-low-power-ai-and-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Beyond silicon: An indium selenide roadmap for ultra-low-power AI and quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.beyond-silicon-an-indium-selenide-roadmap-for-ultra-low-power-ai-and-quantum-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Prof. Seunguk Song from the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), in collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), the University of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, has developed a comprehensive technical roadmap for two-dimensional (2D) indium selenides (InSe)\u2014a key material for next-generation low-power and quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>The study, titled \u201cIndium selenides for next-generation electronics and optoelectronics,\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44287-025-00251-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering<\/i>. This research provides a deep dive into the physical properties and device applications of 2D quantum semiconductors, which are viewed as a definitive alternative to silicon as it reaches its physical scaling limits.<\/p>\n<p>As current silicon-based semiconductors shrink to the sub-nanometer scale, they face critical hurdles such as surging power consumption, overheating, and leakage current. To address these challenges, Professor Song\u2019s team focused on InSe, an atomically thin material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Prof. Seunguk Song from the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), in collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), the University of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, has developed a comprehensive technical roadmap for two-dimensional (2D) indium selenides (InSe)\u2014a key material for next-generation low-power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232831","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=232831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}