Ultra-thin bismuth holds unexpected promise for green electronics
Electronic devices rely on materials whose electrical properties change with temperature, making them less stable in extreme ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Ultra-Thin Bismuth: Green Electronics Breakthrough
Electronic devices rely on materials whose electrical properties change with temperature, making them less stable in extreme conditions. A discovery ...
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Five-membered bismuth ring opens up ‘a new era for aromatic compounds’
A five-membered aromatic bismuth ring, prepared by researchers in Germany, addresses a long-standing challenge in synthetic ...
Nature3d
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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China’s new silicon-free chip beats Intel with 40% more speed and 10% less energy
Peking University researchers have developed a 2D transistor that operates 40% faster and uses 10% less energy than leading silicon chips.
New Breakthrough Transistor Tech Claims To Leave TSMC And Intel In The Dust
A major breakthrough at Peking University might have just found the first step beyond silicon for semiconductors.
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Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
Peking University has published its findings on a wafer-scale 2D GAAFET in Nature, pointing a new path into the Angstrom era ...
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Green bismuth
Bismuth, the 83rd element in the periodic table, has been known since ancient times, but was often confused with lead and tin. In 1753, Claude François Geoffroy from France demonstrated that ...
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MnO2 doping induced structural tuning drives superior piezoelectric response in CaBi4Ti4O15-based ceramics
High Curie temperature and high piezoelectric constant are challenges that most piezoelectric ceramics difficult to be ...