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May 28, 2024

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Charge Your Laptop in a Minute or Your EV in 10? Supercapacitors Can Help

May 24, 2024 — Imagine if your dead laptop or phone could charge in a minute or if an electric car could be fully powered in 10 minutes. New research could lead to such ...

Imperceptible Sensors Made from 'Electronic Spider Silk' Can Be Printed Directly on Human Skin

May 24, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method to make adaptive and eco-friendly sensors that can be directly and imperceptibly printed onto a wide range of biological surfaces, whether that's a finger or a ...

To 6G and Beyond: Engineers Unlock the Next Generation of Wireless Communications

May 24, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new tool that could unlock 6G and the next generation of wireless networks: an adjustable filter that can successfully prevent interference in high-frequency bands of the ...

Producing Novel Liquid Crystals by Stacking Antiaromatic Units

May 23, 2024 — In a recent study, researchers developed modified norcorrole molecules whose side chains favored the formation of columnar -stacking structures. Using these compounds, they produced liquid crystals with high electrical conductivity and thermotropic ...

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Wearable Devices Get Signal Boost from Innovative Material

May 22, 2024 — An international team have developed a new material that moves like skin while preserving signal strength in electronics. The technology could enable the development of next-generation wearable ...

Streamlined Microcomb Design Provides Control With the Flip of a Switch

May 22, 2024 — Researchers describe new microcomb lasers they have developed that overcome previous limitations and feature a simple design that could open the door to a broad range of ...

New Crystal Production Method Could Enhance Quantum Computers and Electronics

May 21, 2024 — Scientists describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth -- a process that may aid the manufacturing of cheap flexible ...

Strings That Can Vibrate Forever (Kind Of)

May 22, 2024 — Researchers have engineered string-like resonators capable of vibrating longer at ambient temperature than any previously known solid-state object -- approaching what is currently only achievable ...

Expanding on the Fundamental Principles of Liquid Movement

May 20, 2024 — We are living in a world surrounded by liquid and flow, and understanding the principles that govern its movement is vital in our high-tech world. Through mathematical modeling and experimentation, ...

Ion Irradiation Offers Promise for 2D Material Probing

May 17, 2024 — Two-dimensional materials such as graphene promise to form the basis of incredibly small and fast technologies, but this requires a detailed understanding of their electronic properties. New research ...

Learning the Imperfections: New Approach to Using Neural Networks for Low-Power Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) in mmWave Systems

May 10, 2024 — Engineers have demonstrated a simple computational approach for improving the linearization of power amplifiers (PA), such as those used in mmWave ...

Next-Generation Sustainable Electronics Are Doped With Air

May 15, 2024 — Semiconductors are the foundation of all modern electronics. Now, researchers have developed a new method where organic semiconductors can become more conductive with the help of air as a dopant. The ...

Robots' and Prosthetic Hands' Sense of Touch Could Be as Fast as Humans

May 15, 2024 — Research could pave the way for a prosthetic hand and robot to be able to feel touch like a human hand. The technology could also be used to help restore lost functionality to patients after a ...

Promising New Development in Solar Cell Technology

May 15, 2024 — Researchers who contributed to the development of record-breaking solar cells a few years ago, expanded their invention. The self-assembled monolayers can now be applied not only in inverted but also ...

Speedy, Secure, Sustainable -- That's the Future of Telecom

May 14, 2024 — A new device that can process information using a small amount of light could enable energy-efficient and secure ...

Transforming Common Soft Magnets Into a Next-Generation Thermoelectric Conversion Materials by 3 Minutes Heat Treatment

May 9, 2024 — A research team has demonstrated that an iron-based amorphous alloy, widely used as a soft magnetic material in transformers and motors, can be transformed into a 'transverse' ...

Good Vibrations: New Tech May Lead to Smaller, More Powerful Wireless Devices

May 9, 2024 — What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can, but better? A new class of synthetic materials could allow for smaller devices that use less ...

'Smart' Contact Lenses Could Someday Enable Wireless Glaucoma Detection

May 9, 2024 — Most people with early-stage glaucoma don't know they have it, even though early treatment is key to reducing vision loss. While detecting a subtle increase in eye pressure helps doctors to ...

New Machine Learning Algorithm Promises Advances in Computing

May 9, 2024 — Systems controlled by next-generation computing algorithms could give rise to better and more efficient machine learning products, a new study ...

2D All-Organic Perovskites: Potential Use in 2D Electronics

May 9, 2024 — Perovskites are among the most researched topics in materials science. Recently, a research team has solved an age-old challenge to synthesize all-organic two-dimensional perovskites, extending the ...

'Better Than Graphene' Material Development May Improve Implantable Technology

May 7, 2024 — Move over, graphene. There's a new, improved two-dimensional material in the lab. Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized in 2015, is more conductive, thinner, lighter, ...

When Injecting Pure Spin Into Chiral Materials, Direction Matters

May 3, 2024 — The direction in which spin information is injected into chiral materials affects its ability to pass through them. These chiral 'gateways' could be used to design energy-efficient ...

Tweaking Isotopes Sheds Light on Promising Approach to Engineer Semiconductors

May 3, 2024 — Scientists have demonstrated that small changes in the isotopic content of thin semiconductor materials can influence their optical and electronic properties, possibly opening the way to new and ...

Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch Sensitivity

May 3, 2024 — A stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of ...

New Sensor Detects Errors in MRI Scans

May 2, 2024 — A new prototype sensor is capable of detecting errors in MRI scans using laser light and gas. The new sensor can thereby do what is impossible for current electrical sensors -- and hopefully pave the ...

Scientists Solve Chemical Mystery at the Interface of Biology and Technology

Apr. 30, 2024 — Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) allow current to flow in devices like implantable biosensors. But scientists long knew about a quirk of OECTs that no one could explain: When an OECT is ...

Lead-Vacancy Centers in Diamond as Building Blocks for Large-Scale Quantum Networks

Apr. 30, 2024 — A lead-vacancy (PbV) center in diamond has been developed as a quantum emitter for large-scale quantum networks by researchers. This innovative color center exhibits a sharp zero-phonon-line and ...

When Does a Conductor Not Conduct?

Apr. 29, 2024 — A new study uncovers a switchable, atomically-thin metal-organic material that could be used in future low-energy electronic technologies. The study shows that electron interactions in this material ...

New Circuit Boards Can Be Repeatedly Recycled

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new PCB that performs on par with traditional materials and can be recycled repeatedly with negligible material loss. Researchers used a solvent that transforms a type of ...

Professor Resolves Two Decades of Oxide Semiconductor Challenges

Apr. 26, 2024 — Successful development of high-performance amorphous P-type oxide semiconductor using tellurium-selenium composite ...

Key to Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells

Apr. 25, 2024 — A team of researchers has made a significant breakthrough in the field of organic ...

Scientists Tune the Entanglement Structure in an Array of Qubits

Apr. 24, 2024 — A new technique can generate batches of certain entangled states in a quantum processor. This advance could help scientists study the fundamental quantum property of entanglement and enable them to ...

Rubber-Like Stretchable Energy Storage Device Fabricated With Laser Precision

Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists use laser ablation technology to develop a deformable ...

Holographic Displays Offer a Glimpse Into an Immersive Future

Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have invented a new optical element that brings us one step closer to mixing the real and virtual worlds in an ordinary pair of eyeglasses using high-definition 3D holographic ...