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Valleytronics discovery could extend limits of Moore's Law
May 02, 2018 (SPX)
The research was led by Jie Yao of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Shuren Lin of UC Berkeley's Department of...
Laser frequency combs may be the future of Wi-Fi
May 01, 2018 (SPX)
Upcoming 5G networks are a temporary fix but not a long-term solution. For that, researchers have focused on terahertz frequencies, the submillimeter wavelength...
Water-repellent surfaces can efficiently boil water, keep electronics cool
May 01, 2018 (SPX)
Water is typically boiled off hydrophilic surfaces to cool nuclear reactors and high-power electronics, preventing them from overheating. Purdue University rese...
Cell membrane inspires new ultrathin electronic film
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
"We want to give electronic devices the features of real cell membranes: flexible, strong, sensitive, and super thin. We found a novel way to design semiconduct...
Cheaper and easier way found to make plastic semiconductors
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
Professor Derek Schipper and his team at Waterloo have developed a way to make conjugated polymers, plastics that conduct electricity like metals, using a simpl...
NIST team shows tiny frequency combs are reliable measurement tools
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers combined a pair of frequency combs, a tunable mini-laser and electronics to create an optical frequency synthesizer. The advance transfers the c...
Getting electrons to move in a semiconductor
Apr 25, 2018 (SPX)
In new experiments reported in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, researchers have shown that a wide-bandgap semiconductor called gallium oxide (Ga2O...
Researchers illuminate the path to a new era of microelectronics
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California Berkeley and University of Colorado Boulder have develop...
From insulator to conductor in a flash
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers are particularly optimistic that the next era of technological advancements will start with the development of novel information-processing material...
Sensor strategy a boon for synthetic biology
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
The lab of synthetic biologist Jeffrey Tabor has introduced a new technique to dial up or down the sensitivity of two-component systems - a class of proteins th...
New qubit now works without breaks
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
The collaboration of scientists from the Russian Quantum Center and NUST MISIS in Russia, the University of London and the National Physical Laboratory in Teddi...
Wiggling atoms switch the electric polarization of crystals
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
The macroscopic polarization is expected to change when the atoms are set in motion but the connection between polarization and atomic motions has remained unkn...
Integrating optical components into existing chip designs
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers' approach, however, required that the chip's electrical components be built from the same layer of silicon as its optical components. That meant...
Novel thermal phases of topological quantum matter in the lab
Apr 18, 2018 (SPX)
Quantum simulators were first conjectured by the Nobel Prize in Physics, Richard Feynman, in 1982 since ordinary classical computers that we use nowadays were p...
Polarization has strong impact on electrons, study shows
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
Polarization occurs when waves, such as electromagnetic or light waves, rotate. Electromagnetic fields called microwaves have a rotating electric field that tur...
MIPT delivers world's first biosensor chips based on copper and graphene oxide
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
Besides making the device somewhat cheaper, this innovation will facilitate the manufacturing process. The research findings are reported in the journal Langmui...
The thermodynamics of computing
Apr 13, 2018 (SPX)
Even in today's information age, physicists and engineers hope to make use of this theory; it is becoming ever clearer that the clock rate or the number of chip...
Diamond-based circuits can take the heat for advanced applications
Apr 12, 2018 (SPX)
A team of researchers from Japan successfully fabricated a key circuit in power conversion systems using hydrogenated diamond (H-diamond.) Furthermore, they dem...
Mini toolkit for measurements: New NIST chip hints at quantum sensors of the future
Apr 11, 2018 (SPX)
As described in Optica, NIST's prototype chip was used to generate infrared light at a wavelength of 780 nanometers, precisely enough to be used as a length ref...
Next-generation electronics one leap closer to reality
Apr 09, 2018 (SPX)
Twenty-five years later, physicists Christoph Boehme and Valy Vardeny demonstrated a method to convert quantum waves into electrical current. They too, knew the...
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