{"id":31461,"date":"2016-10-28T01:46:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/ultra-low-power-transistors-could-function-for-years-without-a-battery"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:00:56","slug":"ultra-low-power-transistors-could-function-for-years-without-a-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/ultra-low-power-transistors-could-function-for-years-without-a-battery","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-low-power transistors could function for years without a battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-low-power-transistors-could-function-for-years-without-a-battery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were to draw energy from a typical AA battery based on this design, it would last for a billion years.\u201d \u2014 Sungsik Lee, PhD, in the journal Science.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Indium-gallium-zinc-oxide thin-film transistor\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-low-power-transistors-could-function-for-years-without-a-battery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"274\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Schematic cross-section of an Indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) thin-film transistor [inset: schematic illustrations of atomic structures for less compensated (left) and more compensated (right) IGZO films, respectively] (credit: Sungsik Lee and Arokia Nathan\/Science)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>The transistors can be produced at low temperatures and can be printed on almost any material, such as glass, plastic, polyester fabrics, and paper.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to a computer in sleep mode, the new transistor harnesses a tiny \u201cleakage\u201d of electrical current, known as \u201cnear-off-state current.\u201d This leak at the point of contact between the metal and semiconducting components of a transistor, the \u201cSchottky barrier,\u201d is normally an undesirable characteristic of all transistors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/ultra-low-power-transistors-could-function-for-years-without-a-battery\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/ultra-low-power-transistors-could-...-a-battery<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf we were to draw energy from a typical AA battery based on this design, it would last for a billion years.\u201d \u2014 Sungsik Lee, PhD, in the journal Science. Schematic cross-section of an Indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) thin-film transistor [inset: schematic illustrations of atomic structures for less compensated (left) and more compensated (right) IGZO films, respectively] [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461","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=31461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56279,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31461\/revisions\/56279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}