Hardware
Researchers have created atomically thin artificial neurons capable of processing both light and electric signals for computing. The material enables the simultaneous existence of separate feedforward and feedback paths within ...
May 5, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Emerging AI applications, like chatbots that generate natural human language, demand denser, more powerful computer chips. But semiconductor chips are traditionally made with bulk materials, which are boxy 3D structures, ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Engineering
Electronics engineers are continuously trying to develop thinner, more efficient and better performing transistors, the semiconductor devices at the core of most modern electronics. To do this, they have been evaluating the ...
Jan 12, 2023 feature
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Electronics & Semiconductors
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 ...
Nov 26, 2022 report
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Digital information is everywhere in the era of smart technology, where data is continuously generated by and communicated among cell phones, smart watches, cameras, smart speakers and other devices. Securing digital data ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Engineering
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are semiconducting materials with thicknesses on the atomic scale, which have exceptional electronic properties. In the future, these materials could have the potential to replace silicon ...
Jul 4, 2022 feature
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), enable unprecedented opportunities to solve the bottleneck of transistor scaling and to build novel logic circuits with faster speeds, lower power ...
Jun 13, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
There are a handful of ways to produce hydrogen fuel without emitting carbon into Earth's atmosphere. One involves using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Jun 6, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Over the past decades, electronics engineers and material scientists worldwide have been investigating the potential of various materials for fabricating transistors, devices that amplify or switch electrical signals in electronic ...
May 12, 2022 feature
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Machine learning & AI
A study led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help make materials design as customizable as point-and-click.
Apr 21, 2022
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