{"id":27296,"date":"2016-06-28T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/research-may-lead-to-more-durable-electronic-devices-such-as-cellphones"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:54:44","slug":"research-may-lead-to-more-durable-electronic-devices-such-as-cellphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/research-may-lead-to-more-durable-electronic-devices-such-as-cellphones","title":{"rendered":"Research may lead to more durable electronic devices such as cellphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-may-lead-to-more-durable-electronic-devices-such-as-cellphones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep inside the electronic devices that proliferate in our world, from cell phones to solar cells, layer upon layer of almost unimaginably small transistors and delicate circuitry shuttle all-important electrons back and forth.<\/p>\n<p>It is now possible to cram 6 million or more transistors into a single layer of these chips. Designers include layers of glassy <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> between the electronics to insulate and protect these delicate components against the continual push and pull of heating and cooling that often causes them to fail.<\/p>\n<p>A paper published today in the journal <i>Nature Materials<\/i> reshapes our understanding of the materials in those important protective layers. In the study, Stanford\u2019s Reinhold Dauskardt, a professor of materials science and engineering, and doctoral candidate Joseph Burg reveal that those <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/glassy+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">glassy materials<\/a> respond very differently to compression than they do to the tension of bending and stretching. The findings overturn conventional understanding and could have a lasting impact on the structure and reliability of the myriad devices that people depend upon every day.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-06-durable-electronic-devices-cellphones.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;06-durable-electronic-devices-cellphones.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep inside the electronic devices that proliferate in our world, from cell phones to solar cells, layer upon layer of almost unimaginably small transistors and delicate circuitry shuttle all-important electrons back and forth. It is now possible to cram 6 million or more transistors into a single layer of these chips. Designers include layers of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1523,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-computing","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67075,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27296\/revisions\/67075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}