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Engaging diamond for next-era transistors
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
Most transistors are silicon-based and silicon technology has driven the computer revolution. In some applications, however, silicon has significant limitations...
Conductive paper could enable future flexible electronics
May 19, 2017 (SPX)
One team now reports in the journal ACS Applied Materials andInterfaces another development that can contribute to this evolution: a low-cost conductive paper t...
Quantum reservoir for microwaves
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
By actively cooling the mechanical motion close to the lowest energy allowed by quantum mechanics, the micro-drum can be turned into a quantum reservoir - an en...
Achieving near-perfect optical isolation using opto-mechanical transparency
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
"Low-loss optical isolators are critical components for signal routing and protection, but their chip-scale integration into photonic circuits is not yet practi...
Internet of things made simple: One sensor package does work of many
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
The plug-in sensor package they've developed monitors multiple phenomena in a room, including things such as sounds, vibration, light, heat, electromagnetic noi...
Materials research creates potential for improved computer chips and transistors
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Diamond and graphite, for example, are but two of the many polymorphs of carbon, meaning that both have the same chemical composition and differ only in the man...
Organic electronics: Semiconductors as decal stickers
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Today's computer processors are composed of billions of transistors. These electronic components normally consist of semiconductor material, insulator, substrat...
Refrigerator for quantum computers discovered
May 12, 2017 (SPX)
The research results published this week in the scientific journal, Nature Communications, suggest how harmful errors in quantum computing can be removed. This ...
Model for multivalley polaritons
May 12, 2017 (SPX)
A team at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), modeled the behavior of polaritons in microcaviti...
'Persistent photoconductivity' offers new tool for bioelectronics
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
"There's a great deal of interest in being able to control cell behavior in relation to semiconductors - that's the underlying idea behind bioelectronics," says...
Hybrid heterostructures with programmable potentials
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
The research, published in Nature Communications, paves the way for new materials with specially designed electrical, magnetic, piezoelectric and optical functi...
Hybrid circuits can increase computational power of chaos-based systems
May 05, 2017 (SPX)
Computer scientists and designers are struggling to keep up with Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double e...
Light has new capacity for electronics
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
That technology is still science fiction, but a new study may bring it closer to reality. A team of researchers from Japan reports this week in Applied Physics ...
A new wave of electronics that's flexible, organic and biodegradable
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Troubled by this mounting waste, Stanford engineer Zhenan Bao and her team are rethinking electronics. "In my group, we have been trying to mimic the function o...
Dawn of organic single crystal electronics
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
Controlling "holes" and "electrons" responsible for electric conduction of p-type and n-type semiconductors by doping - adding a trace amount of impurity - had ...
'Valleytronics' advancement could help extend Moore's Law
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
A new field of physics seeking such advancements is called valleytronics, which exploits the electron's "valley degree of freedom" for data storage and logic ap...
New quantum liquid crystals may play role in future of computers
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
"We have detected the existence of a fundamentally new state of matter that can be regarded as a quantum analog of a liquid crystal," says Caltech assistant pro...
Wonder material? Novel nanotube structure strengthens thin films for flexible electronics
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
"The structural robustness of thin metal films has significant importance for the reliable operation of smart skin and flexible electronics including biological...
Molecular libraries for organic light-emitting diodes
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
Chemists at Goethe University Frankfurt are currently working on new types of organic luminescent materials which owe their particularly promising properties to...
Graphene 'copy machine' may produce cheap semiconductor wafers
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
A new technique developed by MIT engineers may vastly reduce the overall cost of wafer technology and enable devices made from more exotic, higher-performing se...
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