Engineering
Multiferroics are a promising class of materials for making computer chips and other electronic components that can operate at much lower power than today's devices. The materials have coupled electrical and magnetic properties ...
Oct 28, 2026
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Engineering
Could a magnetic field be used to identify in advance which OLEDs will keep smartphone and TV screens bright the longest? A KAIST research team has developed a technique that predicts OLED lifetime by analyzing small changes ...
Oct 21, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
AI data centers need to move lots of information quickly, and the demand for faster data transmission is only growing. Over very short distances, data centers can use traditional copper wires to connect chips right next to ...
Oct 22, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A collaboration between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering and the University of Notre Dame has broken the world record for optical switching speed in quantum well LEDs. The gallium ...
Oct 29, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Inside the human brain, billions of individual neurons connect to form a vast network capable of rapidly processing information and electrical signals. A team of researchers and engineers at Penn State is taking inspiration ...
Oct 13, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Every electronic device, factory and vehicle generates heat that often goes to waste. What if that energy could be recovered to generate electricity using thin films manufactured without high-temperature processing? Researchers ...
Oct 29, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, only a few atomic layers thick, are promising materials for making AI chips faster and more energy efficient by stacking additional semiconductor layers on top of existing computing circuits. ...
Oct 13, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
From blinking and smiling to jaw clenching and eyebrow raising, faces are constantly in motion—and generating tiny amounts of energy along the way. Now, Northwestern University engineers are putting that energy to work.
Oct 13, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Michigan have reported the creation of a graphene-based energy harvester that uses ambient radiation to run ultralow-power temperature sensors. This is the second ...
Oct 23, 2026
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Hardware
Just as carbon atoms arranged in different ways can form either graphite or diamond—the hardest natural material—semiconductor materials can also exhibit completely different properties depending on their atomic arrangements. ...
Oct 8, 2026
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