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April 19, 2024

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Machine Learning Used to Create a Fabric-Based Touch Sensor

Apr. 17, 2024 — A new fabric-based touch sensor used machine learning to control mobile apps, video games and other devices while integrated into ...

Two-Dimensional Nanomaterial Sets Record for Expert-Defying, Counter-Intuitive Expansion

Apr. 17, 2024 — Engineers have developed a record-setting nanomaterial which when stretched in one direction, expands perpendicular to the applied ...

Quantum Precision: A New Kind of Resistor

Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method that can improve the performance of quantum resistance standards. It's based on a quantum phenomenon called Quantum Anomalous Hall ...

'Surprising' Hidden Activity of Semiconductor Material Spotted by Researchers

Apr. 11, 2024 — New research suggests that materials commonly overlooked in computer chip design actually play an important role in information processing, a discovery which could lead to faster and more efficient ...

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New Colorful Plastic Films for Versatile Sensors and Electronic Displays

Apr. 15, 2024 — Researchers have synthesized triarylborane (TAB) compounds that exhibit unusual optical responses upon binding to certain anions. They also synthesized thin polymer films that incorporate the TAB and ...

Will the Convergence of Light and Matter in Janus Particles Transcend Performance Limitations in the Optical Display Industry?

Apr. 8, 2024 — Team successfully exerted electrical control over polaritons, hybridized light-matter particles, at room ...

New Method of Measuring Qubits Promises Ease of Scalability in a Microscopic Package

Apr. 10, 2024 — The path to quantum supremacy is made challenging by the issues associated with scaling up the number of qubits. One key problem is the way that ...

Breakthrough for Next-Generation Digital Displays

Apr. 10, 2024 — Researchers have developed a digital display screen where the LEDs themselves react to touch, light, fingerprints and the user's pulse, among other things. Their results could be the start of a whole ...

Progress in Quantum Physics: Researchers Tame Superconductors

Apr. 4, 2024 — An international team including researchers from the University of W rzburg has succeeded in creating a special state of superconductivity. This discovery could advance the development of quantum ...

'Tug of War' Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials

Apr. 3, 2024 — Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must separate mixed lanthanide sources into individual elements using costly, time-consuming, and ...

New Materials Discovered for Safe, High-Performance Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries

Apr. 2, 2024 — All-solid-state lithium-ion batteries offer enhanced safety and energy density compared to liquid electrolyte counterparts, but face challenges like ...

Micro-Lisa! Making a Mark With Novel Nano-Scale Laser Writing

Mar. 26, 2024 — High-power lasers are often used to modify polymer surfaces to make high-tech biomedical products, electronics and data storage components. Now researchers have discovered a light-responsive, ...

A Tiny Spot Leads to a Large Advancement in Nano-Processing, Researchers Reveal

Mar. 27, 2024 — Focusing a tailored laser beam through transparent glass can create a tiny spot inside the material. Researchers have reported on a way to use this ...

Super Permeable Wearable Electronics Developed for Stable, Long-Term Biosignal Monitoring

Mar. 27, 2024 — Super wearable electronics that are lightweight, stretchable and increase sweat permeability by 400-fold have been developed by scientists, enabling ...

Quantum Interference Could Lead to Smaller, Faster, and More Energy-Efficient Transistors

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists made a single-molecule transistor using quantum interference to control electron flow. This new design offers high on/off ratio and stability, potentially leading to smaller, faster, and ...

Major Environmental Benefits Recycling Gold With Biodiesel

Mar. 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed an environmentally friendly method for recycling and purifying metals. Using gold earrings from a pawnshop in Gothenburg and biodiesel from the nearest filling station, the ...

Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory

Mar. 25, 2024 — In a step toward nanofluidic-based neuromorphic -- or brain-inspired -- computing, engineers have succeeded in executing a logic operation by connecting two chips that use ions, rather than ...

N-Channel Diamond Field-Effect Transistor

Mar. 21, 2024 — A research team has developed an n-channel diamond MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor). The developed n-channel diamond MOSFET provides a key step toward CMOS (complementary ...

Cleaning Up Environmental Contaminants With Quantum Dot Technology

Mar. 20, 2024 — The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was focused on quantum dots -- objects so tiny, they're controlled by the strange rules of quantum physics. Quantum dots used in electronics are often toxic, ...

Brain-Inspired Wireless System to Gather Data from Salt-Sized Sensors

Mar. 19, 2024 — In a new study, researchers describe a novel approach for a wireless communication network that can efficiently transmit, receive and decode data from thousands of microelectronic chips that are each ...

Fast-Charging Lithium-Sulphur Batteries on the Horizon

Mar. 18, 2024 — New research shows that the next generation of lithium-sulphur (Li||S) batteries may be capable of being charged in less than five minutes, instead of several hours as is currently the ...

Printed Polymer Allows Researchers to Explore Chirality and Spin Interactions at Room Temperature

Mar. 15, 2024 — A printable organic polymer that assembles into chiral structures when printed has enabled researchers to reliably measure the amount of charge produced in spin-to-charge conversion within a ...

An Electricity Generator Inspired by the Drinking Bird Toy Powers Electronics With Evaporated Water

Mar. 14, 2024 — Inspired by the classic drinking bird toy, scientists have developed an engine that efficiently converts energy from water evaporation into electricity to power small electronics. The device produces ...

Scientists Use Novel Technique to Create New Energy-Efficient Microelectronic Device

Mar. 13, 2024 — Researchers have created a new material that uses 'redox gating' to control the movement of electrons in and out of a semiconducting ...

Scientists Develop Ultra-Thin Semiconductor Fibers That Turn Fabrics Into Wearable Electronics

Mar. 13, 2024 — Scientists have developed ultra-thin semiconductor fibers that can be woven into fabrics, turning them into smart wearable ...

Spiral Wrappers Switch Nanotubes from Conductors to Semiconductors and Back

Mar. 12, 2024 — By wrapping a carbon nanotube with a ribbon-like polymer, researchers were able to create nanotubes that conduct electricity when struck with low-energy light that our eyes cannot see. In the future, ...

Tiny Wireless Light Bulbs for Biomedical Applications

Mar. 8, 2024 — The combination of OLEDs and acoustic antennas creates a light source that could be used for minimally invasive treatment ...

Using Light to Precisely Control Single-Molecule Devices

Mar. 5, 2024 — Researchers flip the switch at the nanoscale by applying light to induce bonding for single-molecule device ...

Spontaneous Curvature the Key to Shape-Shifting Nanomaterials

Mar. 4, 2024 — Inspired by nature, nanotechnology researchers have identified 'spontaneous curvature' as the key factor determining how ultra-thin, artificial materials can transform into useful tubes, ...

Umbrella for Atoms: The First Protective Layer for 2D Quantum Materials

Mar. 1, 2024 — As silicon-based computer chips approach their physical limitations in the quest for faster and smaller designs, the search for alternative materials that remain functional at atomic scales is one of ...

Quantum Films on Plastic

Feb. 28, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that thin films of elemental bismuth exhibit the so-called non-linear Hall effect, which could be applied in technologies for the controlled use of terahertz ...

Movies of Ultrafast Electronic Circuitry in Space and Time

Feb. 27, 2024 — Researchers have successfully filmed the operations of extremely fast electronic circuitry in an electron microscope at a bandwidth of tens of ...

Mixed-Dimensional Transistors Enable High-Performance Multifunctional Electronic Devices

Feb. 23, 2024 — Downscaling of electronic devices, such as transistors, has reached a plateau, posing challenges for semiconductor fabrication. However, a research team led by materials scientists recently ...

Method Identified to Double Computer Processing Speeds

Feb. 21, 2024 — Scientists introduce what they call 'simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading' or SHMT. This system doubles computer processing speeds with existing hardware by simultaneously using ...