Studying Chaos Phenomena With One of the World’s Fastest Cameras
There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard ball bounces…
Electrical Engineering
Surprising Discovery of Unexpected Quantum Behavior in Insulators Suggests Existence of Entirely New Type of Particle
In a surprising discovery, Princeton physicists have observed an unexpected quantum behavior in an insulator made from a material called tungsten ditelluride. This phenomenon, known…
3D-Printed “Artificial Muscle” Inspired by Color-Changing Octopus Skin
3D-Printed Smart Gel Changes Shape When Exposed to Light Inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids, Rutgers engineers have created a 3D-printed…
AI Boosted by Parallel Convolutional Light-Based Processors
The exponential growth of data traffic in our digital age poses some real challenges on processing power. And with the advent of machine learning and…
Old Silicon Learns New Tricks: Atomically Architected Silicon Pyramids With Unusual Magnetic Properties
Researchers from Nara Institute of Science and Technology fabricated arrays of atomically smooth iron-coated silicon pyramids with unusual magnetic properties. Ultrasmall integrated circuits have revolutionized…
Invisible Solar Panels: How Tomorrow’s Windows Will Generate Electricity
A new study led by scientists from Incheon National University in Korea shows how to make a fully transparent solar cell. In a new study…
Supercapacitors Challenge Batteries: Powerful Graphene Hybrid Material for Highly Efficient Energy Storage
A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly efficient supercapacitor. The…
“Mount Everest” of Electronic Materials: Stretching Diamond for Next-Generation Microelectronics
Diamond is the hardest material in nature. But out of many expectations, it also has great potential as an excellent electronic material. A joint research…
Hyperfluorescence: Long Live the Efficient, Pure-Blue OLED
Novel approach shows promise for overcoming the bottleneck of blue emission in displays using organic light-emitting diodes. Using a new combination of emitter molecules, researchers…
Fluorescence “Lifetime” Microscopy Technique Uses Frequency Combs and No Mechanical Parts to Observe Dynamic Biological Phenomena
Comb of a Lifetime: A New Method for Fluorescence Microscopy Fluorescence microscopy is widely used in biochemistry and life sciences because it allows scientists to…
Scientists Develop an Efficient Way to Produce Low-Cost Heatsinks
NUST MISIS scientists found a way to reduce the cost of industrial and electronics heatsinks production up to 10 times. Consequently, the product itself would…
Atomic-Scale Nanowires for Next-Generation Electronics
Scalable synthesis of transition metal chalcogenide nanowires for next-gen electronics. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a way to make self-assembled nanowires of transition…
LED Developed That Can Be Integrated Directly Into Computer Chips
The advance could cut production costs and reduce the size of microelectronics for sensing and communication. Light-emitting diodes — LEDs — can do way more…
MIT Discovery Offers New Promise for Nonsilicon Computer Transistors
Once deemed suitable only for high-speed communication systems, an alloy called InGaAs might one day rival silicon in high-performance computing. For decades, one material has…
Meshing Optics With Electronics: Physics Discovery Leads to Ballistic Optical Materials
Electronics are increasingly being paired with optical systems, such as when accessing the internet on an electronically run computer through fiber optic cables. But meshing…
Entangled Photons Created 100 Times More Efficiently Than Previously Possible
Fast, ultra-bright photon source brings scalable quantum photonics within reach. Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives — but first,…
World’s First Transmission of 1 Petabit/S Using a Single-Core Multimode Optical Fiber
A world record transmission of 1 petabit per second in a multimode optical fiber increases the current record data rate in multimode optical fibers by…
Disguising Key Computer Chip Hardware From Hackers With New Transistor Design
A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit – but not if the transistor…