{"id":90914,"date":"2019-05-17T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/ultra-clean-fabrication-platform-produces-nearly-ideal-2-d-transistors"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:02:23","slug":"ultra-clean-fabrication-platform-produces-nearly-ideal-2-d-transistors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/ultra-clean-fabrication-platform-produces-nearly-ideal-2-d-transistors","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-clean fabrication platform produces nearly ideal 2-D transistors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4m-1vxXQHtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Semiconductors, which are the basic building blocks of transistors, microprocessors, lasers, and LEDs, have driven advances in computing, memory, communications, and lighting technologies since the mid-20th century. Recently discovered two-dimensional materials, which feature many superlative properties, have the potential to advance these technologies, but creating 2-D devices with both good electrical contacts and stable performance has proved challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Columbia Engineering report that they have demonstrated a nearly ideal transistor made from a two-dimensional (2-D) material stack\u2014with only a two-atom-thick semiconducting layer\u2014by developing a completely clean and damage-free <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fabrication\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fabrication<\/a> process. Their method shows vastly improved performance compared to 2-D semiconductors fabricated with a conventional process, and could provide a scalable platform for creating ultra-clean devices in the future. The study was published today in Nature Electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking devices out of 2-D materials is a messy business,\u201d says James Teherani, assistant professor of electrical engineering. \u201cDevices vary wildly from run to run and often degrade so fast that you see performance diminish while you\u2019re still measuring them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-ultra-clean-fabrication-platform-ideal-d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductors, which are the basic building blocks of transistors, microprocessors, lasers, and LEDs, have driven advances in computing, memory, communications, and lighting technologies since the mid-20th century. Recently discovered two-dimensional materials, which feature many superlative properties, have the potential to advance these technologies, but creating 2-D devices with both good electrical contacts and stable performance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523,38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90914","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}