With silicon transistors, the entire device is either turned on or off. With 2-D transistors, by contrast, Lai and the team found that electric currents move in a more phased (or wave-like) way, beginning first at the edges before appearing in the interior. This suggests the same current could be sent with less power and in an even tinier space — using a 1-dimensional edge instead of the 2-dimensional plane.

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