{"id":300248,"date":"2026-01-23T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/300248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:43:08","slug":"chinese-scientists-shrink-semiconductor-chip-into-fibre-as-thin-as-human-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/300248\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists shrink semiconductor chip into fibre as thin as human hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have created fully flexible fibre <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/semiconductors?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chips<\/a> with circuits that are integrated and embedded within stretchable strands as thin as human hair at a density rivalling those of a home computer\u2019s central processing unit.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Scientists have now advanced fibre-based electronics that already enable power supply and sensing functions and have spurred the growth of electronic textiles by developing integrated circuits in threadlike form.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This allows the fibres to compute like chips or display information like transistors, effectively enabling machine-washable cloth to work like a computer or television.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team developed a novel electronic device named a fibre integrated circuit (FIC). Instead of fabricating circuits on rigid planar substrates, the researchers built functional circuits on an elastic substrate, which was then rolled into a thin fibre resembling a scroll.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Although as thin as a strand of human hair, the fibre achieves a transistor density of 100,000 per centimetre, meeting the industry standard of traditional very large-scale integration while remaining fully flexible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have created fully flexible fibre chips with circuits that are integrated and embedded within stretchable strands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[56044,4563,73458,18,2421,148354,19,17,3618,148356,148353,148357,82,148355],"class_list":{"0":"post-300248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-brain-computer-interfaces","9":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","10":"tag-cpus","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-fudan-university","13":"tag-fudans-institute-of-fiber-materials-and-devices","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-nature","17":"tag-peng-huisheng","18":"tag-professor-peng-huisheng","19":"tag-smart-textiles","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-virtual-reality-wearables"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115946835400984686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}