{"id":30848,"date":"2016-10-07T13:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/scientists-just-developed-the-worlds-smallest-transistor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:51","slug":"scientists-just-developed-the-worlds-smallest-transistor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/scientists-just-developed-the-worlds-smallest-transistor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just developed the world\u2019s smallest transistor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-developed-the-worlds-smallest-transistor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have succeeded in creating the world\u2019s smallest transistor, producing a switch with a working 1-nanometre gate. If you want to know how incredibly tiny that is, a human hair is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nano.gov\/nanotech-101\/what\/nano-size\">around 80,000 to 100,000 nanometres wide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike regular transistors, the researchers\u2019 new prototype isn\u2019t made out of silicon \u2013 and the smaller size means we can still improve performance in integrated circuits by populating them with greater amounts of incredibly small components.<\/p>\n<p>And it could help us keep Moore\u2019s Law alive too.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-developed-the-world-s-smallest-ever-transistor\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-developed-the-wo...transistor<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have succeeded in creating the world\u2019s smallest transistor, producing a switch with a working 1-nanometre gate. If you want to know how incredibly tiny that is, a human hair is around 80,000 to 100,000 nanometres wide. Unlike regular transistors, the researchers\u2019 new prototype isn\u2019t made out of silicon \u2013 and the smaller size means [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66059,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30848\/revisions\/66059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}