Engineers Make Golden Breakthrough to Improve Electronic Devices - Polidicks

[url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130905112125.htm[/url] [IMG]http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/09/130905112125.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE][B]A Kansas State University chemical engineer has discovered that a new member of the ultrathin materials family has great potential to improve electronic and thermal devices.[/B] "Futuristically, these atomically thick structures have the potential to revolutionize electronics by evolving into devices that will be only a few atoms thick," Berry said. For the latest research, Berry and his team focused on transistors based on molybdenum disulfide, or MoS2, which was isolated only two years ago. The material is made of three-atom-thick sheets and has recently shown to have transistor-rectification that is better than graphene, which is a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms. When Berry's team studied molybdenum disulfide's structure, they realized that the sulfur group on its surface had a strong chemistry with noble metals, including gold. By establishing a bond between molybdenum disulfide and gold nanostructures, they found that the bond acted as a highly coupled gate capacitor. Berry's team enhanced several transistor characteristics of molybdenum disulfide by manipulating it with gold nanomaterials. "The spontaneous, highly capacitive, lattice-driven and thermally-controlled interfacing of noble metals on metal-dichalcogenide layers can be employed to regulate their carrier concentration, pseudo-mobility, transport-barriers and phonon-transport for future devices," Berry said. The work may greatly improve future electronics, which will be ultrathin, Berry said. The researchers have developed a way to reduce the power that is required to operate these ultrathin devices. "The research will pave the way for atomically fusing layered heterostructures to leverage their capacitive interactions for next-generation electronics and photonics," Berry said. "For example, the gold nanoparticles can help launch 2-D plasmons on ultrathin materials, enabling their interference for plasmonic-logic devices."[/QUOTE]

So, what does this mean for somebody who doesn't have a masters degree in chemistry? The big words kind of threw me off.

[QUOTE=brianosaur;42098863]So, what does this mean for somebody who doesn't have a masters degree in chemistry? The big words kind of threw me off.[/QUOTE] It means graphene isn't the very best, there's better.

Title should be "Engineers make weekly breakthrough to improve electronics" Its still cool none the less, just 1 step closet to a paper thin smartphone

[QUOTE=Saxon;42098931]Title should be "Engineers make weekly breakthrough to improve electronics" Its still cool none the less, just 1 step closet to a paper thin smartphone[/QUOTE] That will be covered in a half inch thick OtterBox anyway.

[QUOTE=brianosaur;42098863]So, what does this mean for somebody who doesn't have a masters degree in chemistry? The big words kind of threw me off.[/QUOTE] Smaller and more efficient transistors.

[QUOTE=James xX;42098927]It means graphene isn't the very best, there's better.[/QUOTE] Or that it can be used to help enhance graphene further.

[QUOTE=brianosaur;42098863]So, what does this mean for somebody who doesn't have a masters degree in chemistry? The big words kind of threw me off.[/QUOTE] Very very very very tiny transistor-imitating things.

[QUOTE=brianosaur;42098863]So, what does this mean for somebody who doesn't have a masters degree in chemistry? The big words kind of threw me off.[/QUOTE] My exact thought process for 99% of threads Reshy makes :v: Especially the ones about some obscure seemingly "very-minor" scientific discovery/test that applies only to a very small or obscure field of science that I didn't even know was a thing or don't understand its significance.

[QUOTE=Saxon;42098931]just 1 step closet[/QUOTE] That's a small closet.

Awww yeah, that's the same thing I'm majoring in. I knew I picked the right field