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Engineers ‘Grow’ Atomically Thin Transistors on Top of Computer Chips

Engineers 'grow' atomically thin transistors on top of computer chips
Uniformity characterization of the 200 mm monolayer MoS2 synthesized at low temperature. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-023-01375-6

Emerging AI applications, like chatbots that generate natural human language, demand denser, more powerful computer chips. But semiconductor chips are traditionally made with bulk materials, which are boxy 3D structures, so stacking multiple layers of transistors to create denser integrations is very difficult.

However, semiconductor transistors made from ultrathin 2D materials, each only about three atoms in thickness, could be stacked up to create more powerful chips...

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