Micro version of "Race between the Tortoise and the Hare": scientists find that the fastest semiconductor material, chip speed up to a thousand times faster

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens, assassins for their clues delivery! CTOnews.com, October 27 (Xinhua)-- scientists have recently discovered a superatomic (superatomic) material called Re6Se8Cl2, which can be used to make computer chips hundreds or even thousands of times faster than current commercial products.

CTOnews.com Note: traditional computer chips are mainly made of silicon and transmit data through the electron stream. During transport, however, these particles disperse violently, wasting energy in the form of heat and slowing down the time it takes for data to travel from A to B.

Milan Delor and colleagues at Columbia University in New York have discovered Re6Se8Cl2 superatomic materials made of rhenium, selenium and chlorine, in which atoms form clusters, but still retain some of the properties of elements in some ways.

In this material, although particles called excitons (excitons) move faster than electrons in silicon, it is important that these excitons move in a straight line with arrows and can reach their destination faster than silicon electrons. It's like a micro race between the tortoise and the hare. Although the hare (silicon electron) is faster, it bounces too much and doesn't actually fly far or fast; the tortoise (exciton) can focus more on transmission and reach its destination faster.

Delor conceives that if this new material is used, excitons replace electrons to create transistors, which will not scatter during movement, and the transmission speed from point A to point B is 10-1000 times faster than that of silicon electrons.

Reference link: Jakhangirkhodja A. Tulyagankhodjaev et al.,Room-temperature wavelike exciton transport in a van der Waals superatomic semiconductor.Science382438-442 (2023). DOI:10.1126/science.adf2698