Electronics & Semiconductors
In the last decade, perovskites—a diverse range of materials with a specific crystal structure—have emerged as promising alternatives to silicon solar cells, as they are cheaper and greener to manufacture, while achieving ...
Apr 15, 2020
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Researchers at Northern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, are reporting today (Feb. 19) in the journal Nature on a potential breakthrough ...
Feb 19, 2020
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Engineering
Memory-hungry, power-sapping big data might finally have met its match.
Feb 10, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Silicon integrated circuits, which are used in computer processors, are approaching the maximum feasible density of transistors on a single chip—at least, in two-dimensional arrays.
Nov 19, 2019
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Robotics
In materials science and applied physics, researchers expect actuation systems to perform similarly to natural phenomena. As a classic example, scientists proposed to engineer bioinspired materials that mimicked the camouflage ...
Engineering
LED lights and monitors, and quality solar panels were born of a revolution in semiconductors that efficiently convert energy to light or vice versa. Now, next-generation semiconducting materials are on the horizon, and in ...
Jan 15, 2019
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While we embrace the way the Internet of Things already is making our lives more streamlined and convenient, the cybersecurity risk posed by millions of wirelessly connected gadgets, devices and appliances remains a huge ...
Apr 25, 2018
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Silicon has been the semiconductor material of choice for electronics pretty much since the transistor effect was first observed and identified nearly 80 years ago. There's a valley in California named for it, after all.
Mar 8, 2018
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Power electronics, which do things like modify voltages or convert between direct and alternating current, are everywhere. They're in the power bricks we use to charge our portable devices; they're in the battery packs of ...
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Sony's advance in image sensors appears quite natural: the company has developed a set of curved CMOS image sensors based on the curvature of the eye. A report on the sensors in IEEE Spectrum said that, "in a bit of biomimicry," ...
