News MIT Engineers Grow Atomically Thin 2D Materials in Silicon Circuits

[Admin]

MIT researchers have improved processes for “growing” transistor layers on top of a silicon circuit, solving several past limitations and opening a new path toward atom-thin stacking of transistor processing layers.

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[fritzo]

This first link do not work.
And I can't even submit the link because it's rated as spam!

It's the first link in the article.

 

[Endymio]

From the article:

That’s all that’s required to fabricate a modern transistor: three atoms....

The author has misunderstood his text. The deposition layer is three atoms thick. But the transistors fabricated on that layer are much larger than this.

 

[Geef]

I really hope this doesn't turn into another graphene setup. As in the item is totally awesome but it is so hard to make that it isn't really worth making in quantity.

 

[kjfatl]

This could be a huge deal if it works even for simple circuits, particularly SRAM which no longer scales. It effectively doubles the active area of a silicon wafer. This could also be a flash in the pan that goes nowhere like bubble memory.