{"id":233762,"date":"2026-03-21T03:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/designing-better-2d-electronics-addressing-anisotropic-conductivity-to-cut-contact-resistance"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:06:01","slug":"designing-better-2d-electronics-addressing-anisotropic-conductivity-to-cut-contact-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/designing-better-2d-electronics-addressing-anisotropic-conductivity-to-cut-contact-resistance","title":{"rendered":"Designing better 2D electronics: Addressing anisotropic conductivity to cut contact resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/designing-better-2d-electronics-addressing-anisotropic-conductivity-to-cut-contact-resistance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The high-performance semiconductor devices powering smartphone displays, AI computing, EV batteries and more are increasingly incorporating 2D materials to overcome silicon\u2019s scaling limits. To optimize these technologies, a University of Michigan Engineering team developed a precise mathematical framework that accounts for anisotropic\u2014or unevenly spreading\u2014conductivity and device geometry.<\/p>\n<p>Accurate models of how currents move through anisotropic thin films, made of layered 2D materials, can enable the design of more reliable, high-performance nanoelectric devices. Specifically, the model can help engineers reduce current crowding and spreading resistance, essentially current traffic jams, that occur at vertical electrical contacts that connect with the top of a 2D surface. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsaelm.5c02130\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high-performance semiconductor devices powering smartphone displays, AI computing, EV batteries and more are increasingly incorporating 2D materials to overcome silicon\u2019s scaling limits. To optimize these technologies, a University of Michigan Engineering team developed a precise mathematical framework that accounts for anisotropic\u2014or unevenly spreading\u2014conductivity and device geometry. Accurate models of how currents move through anisotropic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233762","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=233762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}