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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 ...

'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 ...

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 new generation of displays for phones, computers ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Atom-by-Atom: Imaging Structural Transformations in 2D Materials

Apr. 17, 2024 — Silicon-based electronics are approaching their physical limitations and new materials are needed to keep up with current technological demands. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a rich array of ...

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, ...

Revolutionary Biomimetic Olfactory Chips to Enable Advanced Gas Sensing and Odor Detection

Mar. 28, 2024 — A research team has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance gas ...

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 ...

Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory

Mar. 19, 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 ...

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 ...

Downscaling Storage Devices: Magnetic Memory Based on the Chirality of Spiral Magnets

Mar. 22, 2024 — A team of researchers has proposed a new concept for magnet-based memory devices, which might revolutionize information storage devices owing to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physics-Based Predictive Tool Will Speed Up Battery and Superconductor Research

Apr. 1, 2024 — Researchers have developed physics-based guidelines that will benefit host-guest intercalated materials research. By using only two guest properties and eight host-derived descriptors, they correctly ...

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 ...

New Study Shows Analog Computing Can Solve Complex Equations and Use Far Less Energy

Mar. 14, 2024 — A team of engineers has proven that their analog computing device, called a memristor, can complete complex, scientific computing tasks while bypassing the limitations of digital ...

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, ...

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 ...

A New Theoretical Development Clarifies Water's Electronic Structure

Mar. 5, 2024 — Scientists have decoded the electronic structure of water, opening up new perspectives for technological and environmental ...

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 ...

Turning Waste Into Gold

Feb. 29, 2024 — Researchers have recovered gold from electronic waste. Their highly sustainable new method is based on a protein fibril sponge, which the scientists derive from whey, a food industry ...

When the Music Changes, So Does the Dance: Controlling Cooperative Electronic States in Kagome Metals

Feb. 29, 2024 — Playing a different sound track is, physically speaking, only a minute change of the vibration spectrum, yet its impact on a dance floor is dramatic. People long for this tiny trigger, and as a salsa ...

Researchers Create New Compound to Build Space-Age Antennas

Feb. 29, 2024 — In a first-of-its-kind development, researchers have created a new compound that can be used to 3D print telecommunication antennas and other connectivity devices. These 3D printed products, created ...

New Microwave Photonics Chip for High-Speed Signal Processing

Feb. 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a microwave photonic chip that is capable of performing ultrafast analog electronic signal processing and computation using ...

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 ...

These Tiny Power Converters Run on Vibrational Energy

Feb. 20, 2024 — Scientists have developed a ground-breaking piezoelectric-based DC-DC converter that unifies all power switches onto a single chip to increase power density. This new power topology, which extends ...

Physicists Develop More Efficient Solar Cell

Feb. 20, 2024 — Physicists have used complex computer simulations to develop a new design for significantly more efficient solar cells than previously available. A thin layer of organic material, known as tetracene, ...