By : Franyi Sarmiento, Ph.D., Inspenet, July 29, 2022
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Jungwoo Shin and Gang Chen, as well as Zhifeng Ren, from the University of Houston in the United States, have carried out experiments that show that cubic boron arsenide is a good conductor of heat, which would avoid resorting to cooling systems in computers and could replace silicon in the future.
Cubic boron arsenide provides high mobility to both electrons and “interstices” (the positively charged counterparts of electrons), and has excellent thermal conductivity. It is a material that can yield much more than silicon.
The researchers believe that cubic boron arsenide may be the best semiconductor material found to date, and perhaps the best that the laws of physics allow.
The next step in this line of research and development will be to see if the new material can be manufactured in industrial quantities, easily and cheaply, and used in an equally practical and affordable way in applications.
Shin and his colleagues lay out the technical details in the academic journal Science, under the title “High ambipolar mobility in cubic boron arsenide.”
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