Replacement of silicon chips

Silicon chips may soon get replaced with new devices based on Mott insulator. Developed by a team of South Korean researchers lead y Kim Hyun-tak of the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), the Mott insulator named after a Noble Physics Prize winner, can conduct electricity at low temparatures of 67 celceius when subjected to a high-voltage shock.
Silicon has a drawback in that it generates heat, rendering it impossile to place ultra-thin circuits on chips. On the other hand, Mott does not generate heat under similar situations.