A 'Sputnik' moment for chips: Chinese scientists aim to save Moore’s Law by mass-growing 2D materials that 'outclass silicon'

Scientist holding a chip.

• The new growth method runs 1,000 times faster than conventional techniques
• Liquid gold and tungsten form the bilayer substrate for this process
• Monolayer tungsten silicon nitride films reached 1.4 by 0.7 inches in size

Chinese researchers have developed a wafer-scale 2D semiconductor growth method that operates roughly 1,000x faster than conventional techniques.