{"id":238524,"date":"2026-06-06T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ultra-thin-semiconductors-overcome-performance-limits-with-localized-thick-contact-design"},"modified":"2026-06-06T23:10:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T04:10:03","slug":"ultra-thin-semiconductors-overcome-performance-limits-with-localized-thick-contact-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/ultra-thin-semiconductors-overcome-performance-limits-with-localized-thick-contact-design","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-thin semiconductors overcome performance limits with localized thick-contact design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-thin-semiconductors-overcome-performance-limits-with-localized-thick-contact-design2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As semiconductor chips become increasingly thinner, the components inside chips are locked in a fierce race to achieve the ultimate ultra-thin state. However, this has presented a structural limitation: the thinner the device, the harder it is for electricity to flow.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) successfully resolved this issue through a simple yet innovative approach: \u201cthickening only the necessary parts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by Professor Byoung Hun Lee from POSTECH\u2019s Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Semiconductor Engineering, has developed a technology that dramatically lowers contact resistance by redesigning the metal-semiconductor contact structure in ultra-thin tellurium (Te) transistors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As semiconductor chips become increasingly thinner, the components inside chips are locked in a fierce race to achieve the ultimate ultra-thin state. However, this has presented a structural limitation: the thinner the device, the harder it is for electricity to flow. Recently, a research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) successfully resolved [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238524","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=238524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}