{"id":244954,"date":"2026-10-06T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/atom-thin-material-could-overcome-key-transistor-bottleneck-for-next-generation-computer-chips"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:42:07","slug":"atom-thin-material-could-overcome-key-transistor-bottleneck-for-next-generation-computer-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/atom-thin-material-could-overcome-key-transistor-bottleneck-for-next-generation-computer-chips","title":{"rendered":"Atom-thin material could overcome key transistor bottleneck for next-generation computer chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atom-thin-material-could-overcome-key-transistor-bottleneck-for-next-generation-computer-chips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If computer chips could be built from semiconductors just one atom thick, they could pack far more transistors into a smaller space while using less power. So far, however, the technology has been held back by the weakness of \u201cp-type\u201d transistors, which make up half of every modern chip.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-11047-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, researchers led by Vincent Tung at the University of Tokyo have shown that atom-thin sheets of boron carbon nitride (BCN) could offer a promising solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If computer chips could be built from semiconductors just one atom thick, they could pack far more transistors into a smaller space while using less power. So far, however, the technology has been held back by the weakness of \u201cp-type\u201d transistors, which make up half of every modern chip. In a new study published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244954","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=244954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}