{"id":27560,"date":"2016-07-06T20:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T03:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/probing-quantum-phenomena-in-tiny-transistors"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:25:12","slug":"probing-quantum-phenomena-in-tiny-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/probing-quantum-phenomena-in-tiny-transistors","title":{"rendered":"Probing Quantum Phenomena in Tiny Transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/probing-quantum-phenomena-in-tiny-transistors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, nanowires can only be understood with quantum mechanics. Using quantum models, physicists from Michigan Technological University have figured out what drives the efficiency of a silicon-germanium (Si-Ge) core-shell nanowire transistor.<\/p>\n<p><b>Core-Shell Nanowires<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The study, published last week in <em>Nano Letters<\/em>, focuses on the quantum tunneling in a core-shell nanowire structure. Ranjit Pati, a professor of physics at Michigan Tech, led the work along with his graduate students Kamal Dhungana and Meghnath Jaishi.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/news\/stories\/2016\/july\/probing-quantum-phenomena-tiny-transistors.html\">http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/news\/stories\/2016\/july\/probing-quantum-ph...stors.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1,000 times thinner than a human hair, nanowires can only be understood with quantum mechanics. Using quantum models, physicists from Michigan Technological University have figured out what drives the efficiency of a silicon-germanium (Si-Ge) core-shell nanowire transistor. Core-Shell Nanowires The study, published last week in Nano Letters, focuses on the quantum tunneling in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560","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=27560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50186,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560\/revisions\/50186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}