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December 7, 2024

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New Laser Technique Achieves Atomic-Scale Precision on Diamond Surfaces

Dec. 2, 2024 — Research is paving the way for advanced diamond-based technologies in electronics and quantum ...

Bendable Electronic Parts Heat Up by Themselves Like 'Heat Pack' and Lower the Manufacturing Temperature Barrier

Dec. 2, 2024 — A research team has developed liquid-processed thin-film transistors that can maintain high performance at low temperatures -- They are expected to be used in the next generation of high-performance ...

Cooperative Motion by Atoms Protects Glass from Fracturing

Dec. 2, 2024 — You reach for a glass of water only to knock it to the floor, shattering the glass and shooting shards all over the place. If only the glass was unbreakable. Now, researchers have brought this possibility closer to reality after they uncovered ...

Photonic Processor Could Enable Ultrafast AI Computations With Extreme Energy Efficiency

Dec. 2, 2024 — Researchers developed a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network on a photonic chip, using light. This advance could improve the speed ...

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How Non-Toxic and Efficient Solar Cells Can Be Produced

Dec. 4, 2024 — Large-scale production of organic solar cells with high efficiency and minimal environmental impact. In the study, the researchers studied molecule shape and interaction in organic solar ...

In Major Materials Breakthrough, Team Solves a Nearly 200-Year-Old Challenge in Polymers

Nov. 27, 2024 — Researchers' new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn't sacrifice stretchability for ...

Brighter and More Efficient LEDs That Don't Droop

Nov. 25, 2024 — LEDs with low polarization in a direction similar to standard LEDs show greater efficiency at higher power by resisting 'efficiency droop', a new study shows. The findings open the door to a new ...

Research Aims to Roll Back Contamination Caused by Toxic Tires

Nov. 20, 2024 — A new study demonstrates a way to diminish the impact that tires have on the environment when they can no longer be used on vehicles. The process upgrades 6PPD -- a useful but environmentally harmful ...

Physicists Develop New Method to Visualize Magnetic Nanostructures With High Resolution

Nov. 20, 2024 — A new method enables researchers to analyse magnetic nanostructures with a high resolution. The new method achieves a resolution of around 70 ...

New Method of Generating Eco-Friendly Energy

Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method of growing organic crystals that can be used for energy-harvesting ...

In Step Forward for Quantum Computing Hardware, Physicist Uncovers Novel Behavior in Quantum-Driven Superconductors

Nov. 12, 2024 — A new study has uncovered important behavior in the flow of electric current through quantum superconductors, potentially advancing the development ...

New Material to Make Next Generation of Electronics Faster and More Efficient

Nov. 8, 2024 — Researchers have created a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of high-power electronics faster, transparent and more ...

Leveraging Machine Learning to Find Promising Compositions for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Nov. 5, 2024 — Sodium-containing transition-metal layered oxides are promising electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries, a potential alternative to lithium-ion ...

Nanoscale Transistors Could Enable More Efficient Electronics

Nov. 4, 2024 — Nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials can operate more efficiently than silicon-based devices, leveraging quantum mechanical properties to potentially enable ...

The Silk Thread That Can Turn Clothes Into Charging Stations

Oct. 31, 2024 — Imagine a sweater that powers electronics to monitor your health or charge your mobile phone while running. This development faces challenges because of the lack of materials that both conduct ...

Off the Clothesline, on the Grid: MXene Nanomaterials Enable Wireless Charging in Textiles

Oct. 31, 2024 — The next step for fully integrated textile-based electronics to make their way from the lab to the wardrobe is figuring out how to power the garment gizmos without unfashionably toting around a solid ...

Quantum Simulator Could Help Uncover Materials for High-Performance Electronics

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers created a synthetic magnetic field using a superconducting quantum processor, which could enable them to precisely study complex phenomena in materials, like phase changes. This could ...

A Navigation System for Microswimmers

Oct. 29, 2024 — By applying an electric field, the movement of microswimmers can be manipulated. Scientists describe the underlying physical principles by comparing experiments and theoretical modeling predictions. ...

Enhancing the Accuracy of Wearables That Measure Blood Glucose Levels

Oct. 28, 2024 — Wearable electronic devices are potential tools to monitor blood glucose levels (BGLs) among people with diabetes, but their limited size and power lead to noticeable measurement errors. In a recent ...

Developing New High-Performance and Recyclable Materials

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new material poised to advance high-sensitivity recyclable sensor technology. The team created a recyclable high-sensitivity sensor based on the dynamic ...

Non-Electric Touchpad Takes Sensor Technology to Extreme Conditions

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers have developed the world's first soft touchpad that can sense the force, area and location of contact without electricity. The device utilizes pneumatic channels, enabling its use in ...

New Method of Flexing on Electronics

Oct. 24, 2024 — If a phone or other electronic device was made of soft materials, how would that change its use? Would it be more durable? If hospital health monitoring equipment was made of less rigid components, ...

Researchers Develop Method to 'Hear' Defects in Promising Nanomaterial

Oct. 23, 2024 — An international research team has pioneered a new technique to identify and characterize atomic-scale defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a two-dimensional (2D) material often dubbed ...

Soft Microelectronics Technologies Enabling Wearable AI for Digital Health

Oct. 22, 2024 — Developing edge-computing and AI capabilities from wearable sensors enhances their intelligence, critical for the AI of Things, and reduces power consumption by minimizing data exchange between ...

Technology for Precise Diagnosis of Electric Vehicle Batteries Using Small Currents

Oct. 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new technology that can diagnose and monitor the state of batteries with high precision using only small amounts of current, which is expected to maximize the ...

Researchers Pioneer AI-Driven Manufacturing Efficiency Breakthrough

Oct. 17, 2024 — Mechanical and aerospace engineers have created a more efficient way to optimize manufacturing systems, improving speed and quality while reducing ...

New Diamond Bonding Technique a Breakthrough for Quantum Devices

Oct. 16, 2024 — A paper has solved a major hurdle facing researchers working with diamond by creating a novel way of bonding diamonds directly to materials that integrate easily with either quantum or conventional ...

Engineers Set New Record on How Fast Data Can Be Sent Wirelessly

Oct. 16, 2024 — A new world record in wireless transmission, promising faster and more reliable wireless communications, has been set by researchers. The total bandwidth of 145GHz is more than five times higher than ...

Major Step Toward Fully 3D-Printed Active Electronics

Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers produced 3D-printed, semiconductor-free logic gates, which perform computations in active electronic devices. As they don't require semiconductor materials, they represent a step ...

Illuminating Quantum Magnets: Light Unveils Magnetic Domains

Oct. 11, 2024 — Scientists have used light to visualize magnetic domains, and manipulated these regions using an electric field, in a quantum antiferromagnet. This method allows real-time observation of magnetic ...

Researchers Create the First Ever Visualization of Photoexcited Charges Traveling Across the Interface of Two Semiconductor Materials

Oct. 10, 2024 — Researchers have observed electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials. Using scanning ultrafast electron (SUEM) techniques, the research team has directly ...

Ordered Defects May Be Key for Solution-Deposited Semiconductors, Enabling High-Speed Printable Circuits and Next-Generation Displays

Oct. 10, 2024 — A new solution deposition process for semiconductors yields high-performing transistors by introducing more defects, counterintuitively. Researchers used these devices to construct high- speed logic ...

New Technique Could Unlock Potential of Quantum Materials

Oct. 9, 2024 — A research team has devised a unique method to observe changes in materials at the atomic level. The technique opens new avenues for understanding and developing advanced materials for quantum ...

Nature and Plastics Inspire Breakthrough in Soft Sustainable Materials

Oct. 9, 2024 — Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to ...