The researchers at the University of Basel announced that they had equipped an ultra-6 semiconductor with superconducting contacts for the first time. The materials used are extremely fine, including new electronic and optical properties that researchers think they can pave the way for previously unlimaginating applications. When ultra-media semiconductors are combined with superconductors, they should result in new quantum phenomena and find use in quantum technology. 

The semiconductor is one of the most critical components of modern electronic devices ranging from smartphones to televisions and everything. As a result, researchers focused on the development of new semiconductors consisting of a single monolayer of semiconductor materials. Some natural materials offer semiconductor properties with stacked monolayers to form a three-dimensional crystal. The researchers can separate these layers into the laboratory frame, which are not thicker than a single molecule, then use them to build electronic components.

Ultrains semiconductors can offer unique characteristics that are difficult to control otherwise. They are able to use electric fields to influence the magnetic moments of the electrons inside. Semiconductor monolayers also have complex quantum mechanical phenomena that occur inside that could have applications in quantum technology. The researchers are currently investigating how to form new synthetic materials using thin semiconductors called Van der Waals heterostructures.

Although the search continued to stack these layers, this search marks the first time that a monolayer was combined with superconducting contacts. Researchers at the University of Basel have installed a mono-conductor mono-conductor molybdenum superconductive contact disulfide. The video above describes the breakthrough of researchers. The importance of breakthroughs is so interesting for researchers because they believe that components of this type could present new properties and physical phenomena.