{"id":31986,"date":"2016-11-16T23:34:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T07:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-monolayer-material-could-unlock-nano-scale-electronics"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:19:37","slug":"new-monolayer-material-could-unlock-nano-scale-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-monolayer-material-could-unlock-nano-scale-electronics","title":{"rendered":"New Monolayer Material Could Unlock Nano-Scale Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-monolayer-material-could-unlock-nano-scale-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fwww.nyu.edu%2f&tabid=5977&portalid=0&mid=429\" target=\"_blank\">New York University\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/LinkClick.aspx?link=http%3a%2f%2fengineering.nyu.edu%2f&tabid=5977&portalid=0&mid=429\" target=\"_blank\">Tandon School of Engineering<\/a> has found a new method for developing electronics at the atomic scale \u2014 and it\u2019s difficult to get much smaller than that.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists and engineers have previously tried developing electronics using two-dimensional or monolayer electronic materials like graphene to make transistors, but found that the material\u2019s lack of an energy band gap poses difficulties for semiconductor applications.<\/p>\n<p>The new research by assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering Davood Shahrjerdi and doctoral student Abdullah Alharbi, has shown that using a monolayer of tungsten disulfide might be the key to unlocking the potential in nano-scale electronics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/ElectronicsDesign\/ElectronicsDesignArticles\/ArticleID\/13703\/New-Monolayer-Material-Could-Unlock-Nano-Scale-Electronics.aspx\">http:\/\/www.engineering.com\/ElectronicsDesign\/ElectronicsDesi...onics.aspx<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research out of New York University\u2019s Tandon School of Engineering has found a new method for developing electronics at the atomic scale \u2014 and it\u2019s difficult to get much smaller than that. Scientists and engineers have previously tried developing electronics using two-dimensional or monolayer electronic materials like graphene to make transistors, but found that the [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31986","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=31986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49582,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31986\/revisions\/49582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}