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June 15, 2024

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Researchers Demonstrate the First Chip-Based 3D Printer

June 10, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated the first chip-based 3D printer, a tiny device that emits reconfigurable beams of visible light into a well of resin that rapidly cures into a solid shape. The advance could enable a 3D printer small enough to fit in ...

With Programmable Pixels, Novel Sensor Improves Imaging of Neural Activity

June 7, 2024 — New camera chip design allows for optimizing each pixel's timing to maximize signal to noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural ...

Scientists Develop an Affordable Sensor for Lead Contamination

May 14, 2024 — A new system could enable simple, low-cost detectors for monitoring water for lead contamination, and potentially other heavy metals as ...

Opening Up the Potential of Thin-Film Electronics for Flexible Chip Design

Apr. 24, 2024 — The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large 'semiconductor fabrication plants' or 'foundries'. New research by shows that this 'foundry' model can also be applied to the field of flexible, ...

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Miniaturizing a Laser on a Photonic Chip

June 10, 2024 — Scientists have successfully miniaturized a powerful erbium-based biber laser on a silicon-nitride photonic chip. Since typical erbium-based fiber lasers are large and difficult to scale down, the ...

2D Materials Rotate Light Polarization

Apr. 22, 2024 — Physicists have shown that ultra-thin two-dimensional materials such as tungsten diselenide can rotate the polarization of visible light by several degrees at certain wavelengths under small magnetic ...

Revolutionary Biomimetic Olfactory Chips to Enable Advanced Gas Sensing and Odor Detection

Mar. 28, 2024 — A research team has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance gas ...

New Microwave Photonics Chip for High-Speed Signal Processing

Feb. 28, 2024 — Researchers have developed a microwave photonic chip that is capable of performing ultrafast analog electronic signal processing and computation using ...

New Chip Opens Door to AI Computing at Light Speed

Feb. 16, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new chip that uses light waves, rather than electricity, to perform the complex math essential to training AI. The chip has the potential to radically accelerate the ...

Let It Glow: Scientists Develop New Approach to Detect 'Forever Chemicals' in Water

Jan. 17, 2024 — Researchers have created a new way to detect 'forever chemical' pollution in water, via a luminescent ...

Bridging Light and Electrons

Jan. 11, 2024 — Researchers have merged nonlinear optics with electron microscopy, unlocking new capabilities in material studies and the control of electron ...

Made-to-Order Diagnostic Tests May Be on the Horizon

Dec. 11, 2023 — Researchers have made a breakthrough in diagnostic technology, inventing a 'lab on a chip' that can be 3D-printed in just 30 minutes. The chip has the potential to make on-the-spot testing widely ...

Photonic Chip That 'Fits Together Like Lego' Opens Door to Semiconductor Industry

Dec. 1, 2023 — A new semiconductor architecture integrates traditional electronics with photonic, or light, components could have application in advanced radar, ...

Photonics Team Develops High-Performance Ultrafast Lasers That Fit on a Fingertip

Nov. 9, 2023 — Scientists demonstrate a novel approach for creating high-performance ultrafast lasers on nanophotonic chips. The new advance will enable ...

Energy-Saving AI Chip

Oct. 26, 2023 — A computer scientist has developed an AI-ready architecture that is twice as powerful as comparable in-memory computing approaches. The researcher applies a new computational paradigm using special ...

New 3D-Printed Tumor Model Enables Faster, Less Expensive and Less Painful Cancer Treatment

Oct. 16, 2023 — A team combined cutting-edge bioprinting techniques with synthetic structures or microfluidic chips. The method will help lab researchers more accurately understand heterogeneous tumors: Tumors with ...

New Easy-to-Use Optical Chip Can Self-Configure to Perform Various Functions

Oct. 11, 2023 — Researchers have developed an easy-to-use optical chip that can configure itself to achieve various functions. The positive real-valued matrix computation they have achieved gives the chip the ...

Engineers Grow Full Wafers of High-Performing 2D Semiconductor That Integrates With State-of-the-Art Chips

Sep. 19, 2023 — Researchers have grown a high-performing 2D semiconductor to a full-size, industrial-scale wafer. In addition, the semiconductor material, indium selenide (InSe), can be deposited at temperatures low ...

Scientists Develop Method to Detect Deadly Infectious Diseases

Sep. 19, 2023 — Researchers have developed a way of detecting the early onset of deadly infectious diseases using a test so ultrasensitive that it could someday revolutionize medical approaches to epidemics. The ...

DNA Chips as Storage Media of the Future: What Challenges Need to Be Overcome

Aug. 24, 2023 — In the form of DNA, nature shows how data can be stored in a space-saving and long-term manner. Bioinformatics specialists are developing DNA chips for computer technology. Researchers show how a ...

Materials Research: Biocatalytic Foams of Tremendous Stability and Activity

Aug. 10, 2023 — Industrial biocatalysis with enzymes is deemed to be a 'game changer' in the development of a sustainable chemical industry. Enzymes can be used to synthesize an impressive range of complex ...

Transferring Data With Many Colors of Light Simultaneously

June 29, 2023 — Scientists have developed a fast and extremely efficient method for transferring huge amounts of data. The technique uses dozens of frequencies of light to transfer several streams of information ...

New Sensor Chip Advances Rapid, Cost-Effective Disease Diagnostics

June 26, 2023 — Scientists have developed a sensor chip that can detect many disease pathogens with 10 times the sensitivity of currently available ...

Deep Neural Network Provides Robust Detection of Disease Biomarkers in Real Time

May 2, 2023 — A lab has developed a deep neural network that improves the accuracy of their unique devices for detecting pathogen ...

Nifty Nanoparticles Help 'Peel Back the Curtain' Into the World of Super Small Things

Apr. 26, 2023 — Physicists are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to 'peel back the curtain' into the world of extremely small objects -- thousands of times smaller than ...

How Electricity Can Heal Wounds Three Times as Fast

Apr. 18, 2023 — Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly -- in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers have developed a method ...

Detecting Manipulations in Microchips

Mar. 20, 2023 — Attackers have the ability not only to manipulate software, but also to tamper with the hardware. A team is now devising methods to detect such ...

A New Chip for Decoding Data Transmissions Demonstrates Record-Breaking Energy Efficiency

Feb. 23, 2023 — A new chip called ORBGRAND can decode any code applied to data transmitted over the internet with maximum accuracy and between 10 and 100 times more energy efficiency than other ...

Improving the Performance of Satellites in Low Earth Orbit

Feb. 21, 2023 — On-chip distributed radiation sensors and current-sharing techniques can be used to reduce the impact of radiation on the radio and power consumption of small satellites, respectively. New findings ...

A Neuro-Chip to Manage Brain Disorders

Jan. 30, 2023 — Researchers have combined low-power chip design, machine learning algorithms, and soft implantable electrodes to produce a neural interface that can identify and suppress symptoms of various ...

Transistors Repurposed as Microchip 'Clock' Address Supply Chain Weakness

Jan. 25, 2023 — A new technique uses standard chip fab methods to fabricate the building block of a timing device, critical to all microprocessors. Currently, this timing device, known as an acoustic resonator, must ...

A Precision Arm for Miniature Robots

Jan. 13, 2023 — Until now, microscopic robotic systems have had to make do without arms. Now researchers have developed an ultrasonically actuated glass needle that can be attached to a robotic arm. This lets them ...

Researchers Develop All-Optical Approach to Pumping Chip-Based Nanolasers

Dec. 15, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new all-optical method for driving multiple highly dense nanolaser arrays. As described in Optica, the approach could enable chip-based optical communication links that ...

Heart Attack on a Chip

Dec. 7, 2022 — Researchers have developed a 'heart attack on a chip,' a device that could one day serve as a test-bed to develop new heart drugs and even personalized ...