{"id":31008,"date":"2016-10-13T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/berkeley-lab-announces-first-transistor-with-a-working-1-nanometer-gate"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:36","slug":"berkeley-lab-announces-first-transistor-with-a-working-1-nanometer-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/berkeley-lab-announces-first-transistor-with-a-working-1-nanometer-gate","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Lab announces first transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/berkeley-lab-announces-first-transistor-with-a-working-1-nanometer-gate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breaks through the 5-nanometer quantum tunneling threshold; may allow for Moore\u2019s law to continue\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"transistor\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/berkeley-lab-announces-first-transistor-with-a-working-1-nanometer-gate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"339\"><b><center>Schematic of a transistor with molybdenum disulfide semiconductor and 1-nanometer carbon nanotube gate. (credit: Sujay Desai\/Berkeley Lab)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first transistor with a working 1-nanometer (nm) gate has been created by a team led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbl.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)<\/a> scientists. Until now, a transistor gate size less than 5 nanometers has been considered impossible because of quantum tunneling effects. (One nanometer is the diameter of a glucose molecule.) <\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough was achieved by creating a 2D (flat) semiconductor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Field-effect_transistor\" target=\"_blank\">field-effect transistor<\/a> using molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) instead of silicon and a 1D single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) as a gate electrode, instead of various metals. (SWCNTs are hollow cylindrical tubes with diameters as small as 1 nanometer.) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/berkeley-lab-announces-first-transistor-with-a-working-1-nanometer-gate\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/berkeley-lab-announces-first-trans...meter-gate<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaks through the 5-nanometer quantum tunneling threshold; may allow for Moore\u2019s law to continue\u2026 Schematic of a transistor with molybdenum disulfide semiconductor and 1-nanometer carbon nanotube gate. (credit: Sujay Desai\/Berkeley Lab) The first transistor with a working 1-nanometer (nm) gate has been created by a team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31008","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\/31008","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66013,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31008\/revisions\/66013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}