Stefan Mileschin

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University of Basel researchers have equipped an ultrathin semiconductor with superconducting contacts.

According to SciTechDaily the extremely thin materials with novel electronic and optical properties could pave the way for previously unimagined applications. We don’t know of course, because no one has imagined it before.

Combined with superconductors, they are expected to give rise to new quantum phenomena and find use in quantum technology.

The boffins are focusing on the development of new components that consist of a single layer (monolayer) of a semiconducting material. Some naturally occurring materials with semiconducting properties feature monolayers of this kind, stacked to form a three-dimensional crystal. In the laboratory, researchers can separate these layers — which are no thicker than a single molecule — and use them to build electronic components.

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