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Semiconductors and electronics

Semiconductors and electronics

Champion semiconductor could replace silicon, say researchers

01 Aug 2022
An artist's sketch of cubic boron arsenide, incorporating a ball-and-stick model of the chemical with four blue balls (representing arsenic atoms) and 14 smaller red balls (representing boron atoms). In the background is a burst of fuzzy purple-and blue lines suggesting movement of electrons
Power cube: Researchers claim that cubic boron arsenide is the best semiconducting material ever found, and perhaps even the best possible one. (Courtesy: Christine Daniloff/MIT)
Cubic boron arsenide is one of the best semiconductors known to science and could even dethrone sili

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