{"id":95492,"date":"2019-08-28T21:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/mit-researchers-build-functional-carbon-nanotube-microprocessor"},"modified":"2019-08-28T21:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:43:14","slug":"mit-researchers-build-functional-carbon-nanotube-microprocessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/mit-researchers-build-functional-carbon-nanotube-microprocessor","title":{"rendered":"MIT Researchers Build Functional Carbon Nanotube Microprocessor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-researchers-build-functional-carbon-nanotube-microprocessor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at MIT built a 16-bit microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes and even ran a program on it, a new paper reports.<\/p>\n<p>Silicon-based computer processors seem to be <a class=\"\" data-ga=\"[[\u201d Embedded Url\u201d,\u201d External link\u201d,\u201d https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/end-of-moores-law-its-not-just-about-physics\/\u201d,{\u201cmetric25\u201d:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/end-of-moores-law-its-not-just-about-physics\/\">approaching a limit<\/a> to how small they can be scaled, so researchers are looking for other materials that might make for useful processors. It appears that transistors made from tubes of rolled-up, single-atom-thick sheets of carbon, called carbon nanotubes, could one day have more computational power while requiring less energy than silicon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work is particularly exciting because carbon nanotubes are one of the most promising supplements in the future of beyond-silicon computers,\u201d Max Shulaker, the study\u2019s corresponding author and assistant professor at MIT, told Gizmodo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at MIT built a 16-bit microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes and even ran a program on it, a new paper reports. Silicon-based computer processors seem to be approaching a limit to how small they can be scaled, so researchers are looking for other materials that might make for useful processors. It appears that transistors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95492","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}