Biological structures sometimes have unique features that engineers would like to copy. For example, many types of insect wings shed water, kill microbes, reflect light…
Columbia researchers design biocompatible ion-driven soft transistors that can perform real-time neurologically relevant computation and a mixed-conducting particulate composite that allows creation of electronic components…
Chinese researchers have developed a pulsed optically pumped (POP) atomic clock with a frequency stability of 4.7 × 10-15 at 104 seconds based on a…
Uniform nanometer-thick MXene* films can be used as electromagnetic shields in flexible electronics and 5G telecommunication devices. A Korean research team has developed a technology…
When someone opens a laptop, a router can quickly locate it and connect it to the local Wi-Fi network. That ability is a basic element…
Scientists have developed a method for precise, fast, and high-quality laser processing of halide perovskites, promising light-emitting materials for solar energy, optical electronics, and metamaterials….
Using electronic devices for too long can cause them to overheat, which might slow them down, damage their components or even make them explode or…
A clear semiconductor based on tin could improve solar power generation. Mobility is a key parameter for semiconductor performance and relates to how quickly and…
Scientists at Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Alabama Birmingham have discovered a light-induced switching mechanism in a Dirac semimetal. The mechanism…
An international team of computer scientists has set a new record for integer factorization, one of the most important computational problems underlying the security of…
University of Arizona researchers are using quantum entanglement to detect radio frequencies with more sensitivity and accuracy than ever. Your phone’s GPS, the Wi-Fi in…
Organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been around for over forty years. The most widely used form is based on thiols, bound to a metal surface….
A start-up company that has repurposed upcycled solar cells to generate ultraviolet light to disinfect people’s hands has won €20,000 (~$22,000) in a hackathon designed…
Bumps on a road slow down our pace, so do corrugations in graphene to traveling electrons. By flattening the corrugations out, we help electrons move…
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers advance neuromorphic computing. Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic…
Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting to an insulating state and…
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are building a new type of ventilator made of cheap, widely available materials to help fill the…
SLAC scientists and collaborators are developing 3D copper printing techniques to build accelerator components. Imagine being able to manufacture complex devices whenever you want and…