{"id":245479,"date":"2026-10-16T01:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/single-2d-crystal-transforms-into-transistor-with-built-in-insulation-and-electrical-contacts"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:38:29","slug":"single-2d-crystal-transforms-into-transistor-with-built-in-insulation-and-electrical-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/single-2d-crystal-transforms-into-transistor-with-built-in-insulation-and-electrical-contacts","title":{"rendered":"Single 2D crystal transforms into transistor with built-in insulation and electrical contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/single-2d-crystal-transforms-into-transistor-with-built-in-insulation-and-electrical-contacts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A transistor normally requires several fundamentally different materials\u2014a semiconductor to carry current, an insulating dielectric to control it and metallic contacts through which current enters and leaves. Integrating all of these components becomes increasingly difficult as semiconductor devices approach the atomic scale.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Director Jo Moon-Ho of the Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids within the Institute for Basic <i>Science<\/i> (IBS) has now demonstrated a fundamentally different approach. Instead of fabricating the semiconductor, dielectric and contact materials separately and then assembling them into a device, the researchers started from a single layered crystal and chemically converted selected atomic layers and regions into the different materials needed for a working transistor. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aei2693\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transistor normally requires several fundamentally different materials\u2014a semiconductor to carry current, an insulating dielectric to control it and metallic contacts through which current enters and leaves. Integrating all of these components becomes increasingly difficult as semiconductor devices approach the atomic scale. A research team led by Director Jo Moon-Ho of the Center for Van [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245479","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=245479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}