Energy & Green Tech
While electric vehicles have reaped the rewards of new high-energy lithium-ion batteries and rapid charging technology, challenges remain.
Mar 29, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced a tiny, electronic device that can shunt excess electricity within a few billionths of a second while operating at a record-breaking 6,400 volts—a significant ...
Mar 15, 2022
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Engineering
Future tokamak fusion power reactors will generate heat beyond what current materials can withstand. Scientists have proposed various methods for cooling the edge of the magnetically confined fusion fuel, or plasma, to ...
Mar 08, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Using a new fabrication technique, NIMS has developed a diamond field-effect transistor (FET) with high hole mobility, which allows reduced conduction loss and higher operational speed. This new FET also exhibits normally ...
Feb 24, 2022
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Business
A California semiconductor company took its stock public Wednesday—straight into the maw of a global chip shortage that could pose either a threat or an opportunity.
Oct 21, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
When fabricating electronic devices based on conventional semiconducting materials, engineers need to complete a crucial step known as doping. Doping essentially entails the introduction of impurities into semiconductors ...
Sep 24, 2021 feature
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A research team led by Prof. Liu Zhiqiang from the Institute of Semiconductors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the team led by Prof. Gao Peng from Peking University and the team led by Prof. Liu Zhongfan ...
Aug 02, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
For decades, there has been a trend in microelectronics towards ever smaller and more compact transistors. 2D materials such as graphene are seen as a beacon of hope here: they are the thinnest material layers that can possibly ...
Mar 09, 2021
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Engineering
The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a memory device capable of storing multiple values using both optical and voltage input values. This device composed of layered two-dimensional materials is ...
Sep 11, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Computer chips use billions of tiny switches, called transistors, to process information. The more transistors on a chip, the faster the computer.
Feb 10, 2020
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