{"id":10435,"date":"2013-06-24T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2013-06-24T21:22:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T02:22:26","slug":"quantum-tunneling-electrons-could-make-semiconductors-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10435","title":{"rendered":"Quantum-Tunneling Electrons Could Make Semiconductors Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In traditional circuits, transistors are laid down in a bed of silicon that acts as an insulator to prevent crosstalk between circuits. In circuits based on quantum tunneling, silicon is replaced by nanotubes made of boron nitride and electrical pathways consisting of quantum dots\u2014carefully placed bits of gold <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/store\/10.1002\/adma.201301339\/asset\/supinfo\/adma_201301339_sm_suppl.pdf?v=1&amp;s=afe52d34ff62a8db62c316b7be2c94a632a27e90\">as small as three nanometers across (PDF).<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/datacenter\/quantum-tunneling-electrons-could-make-semiconductors-obsolete\/\">Quantum-Tunneling Electrons Could Make Semiconductors Obsolete<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In traditional circuits, transistors are laid down in a bed of silicon that acts as an insulator to prevent crosstalk between circuits. In circuits based on quantum tunneling, silicon is replaced by nanotubes made of boron nitride and electrical pathways &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[320,631,802,647],"class_list":["post-10435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-ee","tag-material-science","tag-quantum-mechanics","tag-semiconductors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}