New super-thin '2D' metal sheets could enable ultra-low power chips and can you guess how they're made? Yup, by squishing stuff really hard
The Chinese Academy of Physics researchers claim the method can be applied to any metal with a low melting point. This ...
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Beijing boffins create chips from Bismuth
More digestible than silicon Troubled Chipzilla and its mates at TSMC might want to start sweating because a bunch of Beijing ...
China Daily Global Edition7d
Chinese researchers set new record for thinnest metal materials
Chinese scientists have recently achieved the fabrication of single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of merely ...
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Chinese team creates ultrathin metal films for next-generation electronics
To squeeze metals such as bismuth and tin, they used "atomically flat" molybdenum disulfide as an anvil. "The metallic films ...
Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed
By way of example, TSMC's N3E node as used in the latest Apple chips has gate pitch of at minimum 45 nm and a metal pitch of ...
Nanowerk8d
Universal atomic-level method enables angstrom-thick 2D metal production
The manufacturing technique involves melting and squeezing pure metals between two rigid van der Waals anvils under high ...
New Scientist8d
Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick
Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...
Scientists achieve universal technique—called van der Waals squeezing—for atomic manufacturing of 2D metals
Since the groundbreaking discovery of graphene in 2004, the dizzying pace of progress in two-dimensional (2D) materials has ...
Nature9d
Move over graphene! Scientists forge bismuthene and host of atoms-thick metals
Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...
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2D metals: Chinese scientists achieve breakthrough in atomic manufacturing
Researchers from the Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a convenient, universal, atomic-level manufacturing technique—called vdW squeezing—for the production ...
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Hideo Kojima Drops Epic ‘Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Trailer & Release Date, Gamers React To The ‘Metal Gear Solid’ Vibes
Hideo Kojima dropped an epic 10-minute trailer for Death Stranding 2: On The Beach and it features some Metal Gear call backs ...
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Connectivity-Dependent Exciton–Phonon Coupling in Cesium Bismuth Halide Quantum Dots
Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States ...