Electronics & Semiconductors

Inside a semiconductor 'clean room' at Japan's top university

To study semiconductors at Japan's top university, first you need the right clothes—protective overalls, shoe covers, plastic gloves and a lightweight balaclava to keep your hair out of the way.

Engineering

Scientists 3D print self-heating microfluidic devices

MIT researchers have used 3D printing to produce self-heating microfluidic devices, demonstrating a technique which could someday be used to rapidly create cheap, yet accurate, tools to detect a host of diseases.

Engineering

Bringing order to hydrogen energy devices

Researchers at Kyoto University's Institute for Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have developed a new approach to speed up hydrogen atoms moving through a crystal lattice structure at lower temperatures. They reported their ...