{"id":243301,"date":"2026-08-28T01:31:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/nanoscale-transistors-achieve-lower-contact-resistance-with-stepwise-evaporation-method"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:31:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:31:52","slug":"nanoscale-transistors-achieve-lower-contact-resistance-with-stepwise-evaporation-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/nanoscale-transistors-achieve-lower-contact-resistance-with-stepwise-evaporation-method","title":{"rendered":"Nanoscale transistors achieve lower contact resistance with stepwise evaporation method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoscale-transistors-achieve-lower-contact-resistance-with-stepwise-evaporation-method.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metals, semiconductors and insulators are fundamental components of modern electronics. However, efforts to improve device performance have largely focused on semiconductor quality, while metal crystallinity has received far less attention.<\/p>\n<p>As transistor dimensions continue to shrink, though, structural disorder in metals and at metal-semiconductor interfaces increasingly impedes carrier injection and transport. Metals therefore need a level of structural order comparable to that of single-crystal semiconductors to push device performance toward its physical limits.<\/p>\n<p>To solve this problem, a research team led by Chu Junhao at the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (SITP) of the Chinese Academy of <i>Science<\/i>s (CAS) has developed an atomic-scale stepwise evaporation method called Step-Eva that enables the direct in situ growth of single-crystal metal films on semiconductors. This process greatly reduces contact resistance and potentially redefines how transistors are built at the nanoscale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metals, semiconductors and insulators are fundamental components of modern electronics. However, efforts to improve device performance have largely focused on semiconductor quality, while metal crystallinity has received far less attention. As transistor dimensions continue to shrink, though, structural disorder in metals and at metal-semiconductor interfaces increasingly impedes carrier injection and transport. Metals therefore need a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243301","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}