The transistor developed by EPFL researchers can substantially reduce the resistance and cut the amount of heat dissipation in high-power systems. Credit: © EPFL Power…
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The image shows eight electrodes around a 20-nanometer-thick magnet (white rectangle). The graphene, not show, is less than is less than 1 nanometer thick and…
Chameleon-Like Material Spiked With Boron Comes Closer To Mimicking Brain Cells In a new study, Texas A&M researchers in the Department of Materials Science and…
Illustration of a pair of silicon high contrast gratings that can be used to guide visible light on a chip with low losses despite large…
An optically excited gas of electronic carriers confined to the planes of the layered van-der Waals semiconductor tungsten diselenide is shown. The consequent hyperbolic response…
Artist’s representation of a halide perovskite photocathode. Researchers at Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory found halide perovskite semiconductors (silver) treated with a thin…
(a) Wide and (b) magnified images of the fabricated Si pyramids. Four slopes correspond to Si{111} facet surfaces. Credit: Ken Hattori Researchers from Nara Institute…
Stretching of microfabricated diamonds pave ways for applications in next-generation microelectronics. Credit: Dang Chaoqun / City University of Hong Kong Diamond is the hardest material…
A photoconductive switch made from a synthetic, chemical vapor deposition diamond under test. Credit: LLNL When it comes to the semiconductor industry, silicon has reigned…
AQFP MANA microprocessor die photo. MANA is the world’s first adiabatic superconductor microprocessor. Credit: Yokohama National University Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have…
MIT researchers have developed a bright, efficient silicon LED, pictured, that can be integrated directly onto computer chips. The advance could reduce cost and improve…
: MIT researchers have found that an alloy material called InGaAs could be suitable for high-performance computer transistors. If operated at high-frequencies, InGaAs transistors could…
Newly developed ballistic optical materials consist of a composite of two transparent materials, creating a plasmonic material. Credit: Evan Simmons and Kun Li Electronics are…
The four transistors on this chip were built out of a 2D material that disguises them from hackers. Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood A hacker…
Atomic-scale image of two interacting donors in silicon. Credit: CQC2T Australian researchers have located the ‘sweet spot’ for positioning qubits in silicon to scale up…
Three physicists in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, together with their colleagues from the Southern University of Science…
In a new realm of materials, PhD student Thanh Nguyen uses neutrons to hunt for exotic properties that could power real-world applications. Thanh Nguyen is…
Next-generation computer chip with two heads EPFL engineers have developed a computer chip that combines two functions — logic operations and data storage — into…
Diamond could conduct electricity like metals when it is deformed to strains at the nanoscale, according to predictions from a study by an international team…
New deposition approach: synthesising and exfoliating (transferring onto a silicon substrate for example) 2D semiconducting MoS2. Credit: FLEET Possible pathway to fast-switching, ultra-low energy electronics…