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…
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: 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…
Researchers have discovered a way to transform the electronic properties of nanoscale needles of diamond. Credit: MIT News Normally an insulator, diamond becomes a metallic…
Electrically pumped surface plasmon-polariton nanolaser. Credit: Dmitry Fedyanin Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King’s College London cleared the obstacle that…
Credit: EPFL 2020 Managing the heat generated in electronics is a huge problem, especially with the constant push to reduce the size and pack as…
Crystal structure of GeSnPbSSeTe, a semiconducting entropy-stabilized chalcogenide alloy. The yellow atoms are cations (Ge, Sn, Pb) and the blue atoms are anions (S, Se,…
The individual building blocks are heated on a silver surface in order to synthesize a porous graphene ribbon that exhibits semiconducting properties and a ladder-like…
University of Washington researchers used an infrared laser to cool a solid semiconductor material — labeled here as “cantilever” — by at least 20 degrees…
Microscope image of monolithic semiconductor lasers fabricated with ring waveguides. When turned on, the light in these lasers manifests a turbulent flow, just like the…
A critical state of the quasiperiodic patterning of a semiconductors polariton cavity. Credit: Aalto University, Jose Lado Combined theoretical and experimental work unveils a novel…
A phase-locking scheme for plasmonic lasers is developed in which traveling surface-waves longitudinally couple several metallic microcavities in a surface-emitting laser array. Multi-watt emission is…
Scientists create smallest semiconductor laser that works in visible range at room temperature. An international team of researchers led by researchers from ITMO University announced…