MIT Engineers Grow “Perfect” Atom-Thin Materials
Their method could enable chip manufacturers to create transistors for the next generation using materials besides silicon. Adhering to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors…
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Researchers Discover That Electrons Play a Surprising Role in Heat Transfer Between Layers of Semiconductors
An electronic bridge facilitates the fast transfer of energy between semiconductors. Researchers are exploring the potential applications of two-dimensional (2D) materials in transistors and optoelectronics,…
Unlocking the Unimaginable: Revolutionary New Method for Materials Discovery
Researchers have discovered a method for creating new materials for use in batteries, magnets, and microelectronics. The most skilled artists can create a one-of-a-kind…
Groundbreaking New Technology Allows People To Listen to Music Through Touch
An audio-tactile algorithm created by University of Malaga scientists conveys melodic information through vibration. A ground-breaking prototype developed by experts from the Department of Electronics…
Researchers Discover a Material With Brain-Like Learning Capabilities
Vanadium Dioxide has the ability to “remember” the entire history of past environmental stimuli. During his research on phase transitions in Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), Mohammad…
Innovative New Magneto-Electric Transistor Could Cut 5% From World’s Digital Energy Budget
Design also poised to save space, retain memory in event of power loss. A new spin on one of the 20th century’s smallest but grandest…
Massive Geomagnetic Storm: Coronal Mass Ejection From the Sun Could Knock Out the Power Grid and Internet
Telegraph networks all throughout the globe failed catastrophically on September 1 and 2, 1859. The telegraph operators reported feeling electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire,…
New Electronics Mechanically Transform Into a Wearable Device for Seamless Integration With the Skin
A KAIST team has designed a new strategy for electronics that will mechanically transform into a wearable electronic device. Imagine a handheld electronic gadget that…
New Flexible Cooling Device Could Provide Efficient Cooling for Mobile Electronics
A team of researchers has made the first demonstration of a solid state cooling device based on the electrocaloric effect. This thin flexible device that…
Gallium Nitride Electronics Poised to Drastically Cut Energy Usage
Using an exotic material called gallium nitride (GaN), Cambridge Electronics Inc. has announced a line of GaN transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to…
Engineers Use Voltage to Control Magnetic Memory
New research details how a MIT-based team has made important strides in the concept of using an electrical signal to control a magnetic memory. A…
New Nanotechnology Aids in Electron Cooling Without External Sources
Using a nanoscale structure that consisted of a sequential array of a source electrode, a quantum well, a tunneling barrier, a quantum dot, another tunneling…
Brookhaven National Laboratory Scientists Explore Ways to Synchronize Magnetic Spins for Nanoscale Electronic Devices
Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers are working to develop ways to synchronize the magnetic spins in nanoscale devices to build tiny signal-generating or receiving antennas and…
Research Reveals ‘Speed Limit’ for Electrical Switching in Magnetite
New research from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reveals for the first time the ‘speed limit’ for electrical switching in magnetite. Menlo Park, California —…
Graphene Provides Cooling for Electronics
A new discovery shows that graphene provides efficient electronics cooling, reducing the working temperature in hotspots inside a processor by up to 25 percent. An…
Dissolving Electronics: DARPA Announces the Vanishing Programmable Resources Program
DARPA’s Vanishing Programmable Resources program seeks to develop electronics capable of dissolving into the environment around them when triggered to do so. The sophisticated electronics…
Nanotechnology Dramatically Improves Electronic Device Performance
A new study from researchers at Tyndall National Institute and the National University of Singapore shows that subtle changes in the intermolecular van der Waals…
Liquid Metal Used in Ultra-Stretchable Conducting Wires
Researchers at the North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that are made out of liquid metal, with the ability to stretch eight times…
