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Organic memory devices show promise for flexible, wearable, personalized computing

Apr 22, 2020 (SPX)

"It is important for us to understand that the computing platforms of today will not be able to sustain at-scale implementations of AI algorithms on massive dat...

Pushing the limits of 2D supramolecules

Apr 17, 2020 (SPX)

Since the 2004 discovery of graphene, the world's thinnest (one-atom-thick) and strongest (200 times stronger than steel) material, researchers have been workin...

A key development in the drive for energy-efficient electronics

Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)

It involves exploiting the complex quantum properties of electrons - in this case, the spin state of electrons. In a world first, the researchers - led by a tea...

Stretchable supercapacitors to power tomorrow's wearable devices

Apr 06, 2020 (SPX)

The researchers envision the supercapacitor being part of a power-independent, stretchable, flexible electronic system for applications such as wearable electro...

To tune up your quantum computer, better call an AI mechanic

Apr 01, 2020 (SPX)

The team's paper in the journal Physical Review Applied outlines a way to teach an AI to make an interconnected set of adjustments to tiny quantum dots, which a...

PIPES researchers demonstrate optical interconnects to improve performance of digital microelectronics

Mar 26, 2020 (SPX)

Increasingly, the limitations of electrical signaling from the chip package restrict overall bandwidth and signaling efficiency, throttling the performance of a...

Semiconductors can behave like metals and even like superconductors

Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)

Semiconductors are the active parts of transistors, integrated circuits, sensors, and LEDs. These materials, mostly based on silicon, are at the heart of today'...

New error correction method provides key step toward quantum computing

Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)

The approach, developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Army funding, could mitigate certain types of the random fluctuations, or n...

The ink of the future in printed electronics

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

In order to increase the conductivity of polymers, and in this way obtain higher efficiency in organic solar cells, light-emitting diodes and other bioelectroni...

Bristol scientists demonstrate first non-volatile nano relay operation at 200C

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

The work, which is reported in Nature Communications, was carried out in collaboration with the University of Southampton and the Royal Institute of Technology,...

A talented 2D material gets a new gig

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

Last year, a team of researchers led by Feng Wang, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a professor of physics at UC Berkeley, ...

Integrating electronics onto physical prototypes

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

Breadboards are rectangular boards with arrays of pinholes drilled into the surface. Many of the holes have metal connections and contact points between them. E...

A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

A Rice University scientist and his collaborators in Taiwan and China reported in Nature that they have successfully grown atom-thick sheets of hexagonal boron ...

How a new quantum approach can develop faster algorithms to deduce complex networks

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

Recently, search algorithms based on the principles of quantum mechanics have been found to vastly outperform classical approaches. One such example is the "qua...

Atomic-scale imaging reveals secret to thin film strength

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

The breakthrough discovery of one-dimensional defects in a two-dimensional structure of porous material (a zeolite called MFI) was achieved using a powerful hig...

Scientists succeed in measuring electron spin qubit without demolishing it

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

Quantum computers promise to make it easier to perform certain classes of calculations such as many-body problems, which are extremely difficult and time-consum...

Honeywell unveils plan for 'most powerful' quantum computer

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

The company said it had achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing, which uses subatomic particles to speed up processing, and would launch the new computers ...

KITE code could power new quantum developments

Mar 03, 2020 (SPX)

Throughout the world the increased use of data centres and cloud computing are consuming growing amounts of energy - quantum materials could help tackle this pr...

Study puts spin into quantum technologies

Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)

The results of the study, published in Nature Materials, will be of interest to both academic and industry research groups working on the development of future ...

Black phosphorous tunnel field-effect transistor as an alternative ultra-low power switch

Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)

The research team said they developed fast and low-power transistors that can replace conventional CMOS transistors. In particular, they solved problems that ha...