Flexible electronics can benefit from ultra-thin materials of atomic thickness, which are used for manufacturing microprocessors. Recent breakthroughs have been made in this area by researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, and the EU's flagship graphene project. These breakthroughs are expected promote the development of Internet of Things applications and intelligent hardware.
Two-dimensional material is a non-nanoscale material (non-nanoscale 1 to 100 nm) that has the ability to move freely in two dimensions. Examples include graphene (or boron nitride), transition metal compounds (two Tungsten sulfide and tungsten dielenide), or black phosphorus.
The two-dimensional materials are usually composed of several layers of molecules. Our previous focus was on graphene. Two-dimensional materials include some graphene-like materials, like transition metal disulfide compound. The materials are soft, small, light, and of low weight. But they also have excellent semiconductor properties, making them ideal for flexible electronic gadgets. .
Microprocessors form the basis of modern electronics. Microprocessors play a key role in all electronics products.

A microprocessor consists of a large number of integrated circuits. It can read and process instructions and exchange data with external logic and memory components.

Thomas Mueller of Vienna's Technical University has been studying two-dimensional material. He believes that materials with two dimensions are the best candidates for manufacturing microprocessors in the future. Molybdenum diulfide, which is composed of sulfur and molybdenum, only has three atoms of thickness, making it a two dimensional material.

In order to achieve this, he worked with the researchers of Technical University of Vienna as well the EU graphene project's "flagship" project in order to develop a transistor based on the two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide material MoS2. A new type of microprocessor is formed by 115 transistors. Currently, this type of microprocessor performs one-bit logical operations. It is expected that it will expand in the near future to multi-bit operation.
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