{"id":501545,"date":"2018-07-25T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8f94076f9cd726f418970a56636ae6f3"},"modified":"2018-07-25T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:00:06","slug":"research-team-uses-excitons-to-take-electronics-into-the-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=501545","title":{"rendered":"Research team uses excitons to take electronics into the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excitons could revolutionize the way engineers approach electronics. A team of EPFL researchers has created a new type of transistor\u2014one of the components of circuits\u2014using excitons instead of electrons. Notably, their exciton-based transistor functions effectively at room temperature, a hitherto insurmountable obstacle. They achieved this by using two 2-D materials as semiconductors. Their study, which was published today in Nature, has numerous implications in the field of excitonics, a promising new area of study alongside photonics and spintronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitons could revolutionize the way engineers approach electronics. A team of EPFL researchers has created a new type of transistor&mdash;one of the components of circuits&mdash;using excitons instead of electrons. Notably, their exciton-based transistor functions effectively at room temperature, a hitherto insurmountable obstacle. They achieved this by using two 2-D materials as semiconductors. Their study, which was published today in Nature, has numerous implications in the field of excitonics, a promising new area of study alongside photonics and spintronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501546,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501545\/revisions\/501546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}