{"id":86411,"date":"2019-01-06T04:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-physics-breakthrough-could-lead-to-a-new-generation-of-advanced-electronics"},"modified":"2019-01-06T04:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T12:42:37","slug":"a-physics-breakthrough-could-lead-to-a-new-generation-of-advanced-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-physics-breakthrough-could-lead-to-a-new-generation-of-advanced-electronics","title":{"rendered":"A Physics Breakthrough Could Lead to a New Generation of Advanced Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-physics-breakthrough-could-lead-to-a-new-generation-of-advanced-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get ready to get excited about excitons.<\/p>\n<p>Excitons are quirky quasiparticles that exist only in semiconducting and insulating materials. Recently, a team of researchers in Lausanne, Switzerland discovered a way to control how <a href=\"https:\/\/actu.epfl.ch\/news\/epfl-uses-excitons-to-take-electronics-into-the-fu\/\">excitons flow<\/a>. Not only that, they also discovered new properties of the particles which they claim could lead to a new generation of electronic devices with transistors that lose less energy as heat. The results of their study were published this week in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-018-0325-y\">Nature Photonics<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/physics-breakthrough-advanced-electronics-excitons\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/physics-breakthrough-advanced-electronics-excitons<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to get excited about excitons. Excitons are quirky quasiparticles that exist only in semiconducting and insulating materials. Recently, a team of researchers in Lausanne, Switzerland discovered a way to control how excitons flow. Not only that, they also discovered new properties of the particles which they claim could lead to a new generation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}