Sandwich with electronic spice: The illustration shows a crystalline monoatomic gold layer under graphene (anthracite). The electronic structure of the gold layer and the graphene…
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The advancement surpasses silicon and other mature technologies, and could help improve distances that electric cars, locomotives can travel. People love their electric cars. But…
A sea of private information is only accessible through an unbreakable lock that can only be opened by two fingerprints. Credit: © 2019 Andrea Fratalocchi…
Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and collaborators from Tsinghua University in…
A focused laser is used to create thin films of tin dioxide. Credit: © 2020 Nakao et al. A clear semiconductor based on tin could…
A look inside the Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE). This machine was used to grow nanowires with hexagonal silicon-germanium shells. The emission from this…
Conversion (doubling) of light frequency using a nanoresonator. Credit: (left) Anastasia Shalaeva; (right) Koshelev et al. Science The reference particle captured light for a time…
Artists’ impression of quantum vortices in a liquid. These are the quantum equivalent of vortices in water or a tornado. Their interactions cause dynamics analogous…
Silicon integrated circuits, which are used in computer processors, are approaching the maximum feasible density of transistors on a single chip—at least, in two-dimensional arrays.…
Among devices of its type, Professor Yuping Zeng’s transistor has record-setting properties, including record low gate leakage current (a measure of current loss), a record…
Large-scale integrated circuits, LSI, can be used, for example, to power an electrochromic display, itself manufactured as printed electronics. Credit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping…
New observations using state-of-the-art techniques could help to build better electronics in smartphones, GPS and satellites. Scientists from Cardiff University have, for the first time,…
This is an artistic rendering of semiconductor quantum rings being illuminated by a laser and emitting single photons. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Breaking of rotational…
This is an artistic illustration of silicon technology combined with 2D materials. Credit: ICFO / F. Vialla Silicon semiconductor technology has done marvels for the…