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Building a 900-pixel imaging sensor using an atomically thin material

A team of researchers at Penn State University has developed a 900-pixel imaging sensor using an atomically thin material. In their paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the group describes how they built their ...

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Researcher finds a sweet new way to print microchip patterns on curvy surfaces

NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy in his lab. It was only as a last resort that he had even tried burying microscopic magnetic dots in hardened chunks of sugar—hard candy, basically—and sending ...

Nov 24, 2022

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Simple semiconductor solutions could boost solar energy generation and enable better space probes

A "simple" tweak to perovskite solar cells during the fabrication stage could help to unlock the untold potential of the renewable energy source, claims research from the University of Surrey.

Nov 23, 2022

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Atomic transistors based on seamless lateral metal-semiconductor junctions with sub-1-nm transfer length

A recent study, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has reported a scalable synthetic strategy to fabricate low-resistance edge contacts to atomic transistors using a thermally ...

Nov 23, 2022

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A space-time coding metasurface antenna for efficient and secure communications

Antennas that can couple guided waves emitted from different sources in free space and manipulate these waves are crucial to the development of numerous technologies, including wireless communication, optical communication ...

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Researchers eye embroidery as low-cost solution for making wearable electronics

Embroidering power-generating yarns onto fabric has allowed researchers to embed a self-powered, numerical touch-pad and movement sensors into clothing. The technique offers a low-cost, scalable potential method for making ...

Nov 22, 2022

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Technique prints flexible circuits on curved surfaces, from contact lenses to latex gloves

Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new technique for directly printing electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces. The work paves the way for a variety of new soft electronic ...

Nov 21, 2022

Electronic/photonic chip sandwich pushes boundaries of computing and data transmission efficiency

Engineers at Caltech and the University of Southampton in England have collaboratively designed an electronics chip integrated with a photonics chip (which uses light to transfer data)—creating a cohesive final product ...

Nov 18, 2022

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Skin-like electronics could monitor your health continuously

New wearable electronics paired with artificial intelligence could transform screening for health problems.

Nov 16, 2022

Qualcomm spotlights embedded artificial intelligence in its latest Snapdragon smartphone chip

Qualcomm launched its latest Snapdragon processor on Tuesday for the next crop of top-tier Android smartphones—with artificial intelligence infused throughout the chip to boost photography, sound, connectivity, gaming and ...

Nov 16, 2022

Apple prepares to get made-in-US chips in pivot from Asia

Apple Inc. is preparing to begin sourcing chips for its devices from a plant under construction in Arizona, marking a major step toward reducing the company's reliance on Asian production.

Nov 16, 2022

Preventing static in the semiconductor process

The research team led by Professor Ju-Hyuck Lee of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST has developed a static prevention technology using a triboelectric nanogenerator. The findings of this study facilitate ...

Nov 16, 2022

A promising optoelectronic synapse for reservoir computing based on alpha-indium selenide

Reservoir computing is an emerging computation framework based on the use of recurrent neural networks (i.e., networks in which data persists or reoccurs in patterns). This framework has the potential of reducing the time ...

Nov 15, 2022 feature

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Researchers develop adaptive directional charging for efficient wireless rechargeable sensor networks

Smart factories, vehicles, and cities increasingly use wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs) for communication. A distinct advantage of WRSNs is that they can be placed in remote, inaccessible, or even biologically ...

Nov 15, 2022

Mass transfer techniques for large-scale and high-density microLED arrays

Recent impressive advances in mass transfer techniques have proven to be a promising solution to overcome the extreme requirements of assembling microLED chips, including the laser lift-off technique, contact µTP technique, ...

Nov 15, 2022

Using mushroom skin as a base for computer chips

A team of researchers at Johannes Kepler University has found that the skin of a certain kind of mushroom can be used as a biodegradable base for computer chips. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the ...

Nov 14, 2022 report

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A novel concept for photovoltaics that exploits the ability of materials to exist in different crystalline phases

The group of Prof. Yana Vaynzof at the Integrated Center for Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at Technische Universität Dresden has demonstrated a novel concept ...

Nov 14, 2022

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