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Seeing the invisible with a graphene-CMOS integrated device

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

Now, Graphene Flagship researchers from ICFO (The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona) have shown that it is possible to integrate graphene into a CMOS ...

Optical communication using solitons on a photonic chip

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

While researchers studied their use for optical communication, eventually the approach was abandoned. Now, a collaboration of a research group at KIT's Institut...

Breakthrough by Queen's University paves way for smaller electronic devices

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

Through nanotechnology, physicists Dr Raymond McQuaid, Dr Amit Kumar and Professor Marty Gregg from Queen's University's School of Mathematics and Physics, have...

Graphene transistor could mean computers that are 1,000 times faster

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

Ryan M. Gelfand, an assistant professor in CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, was a graduate student at Northwestern University when he began researchi...

Researchers flip the script on magnetocapacitance

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

Two years ago, an international team of researchers showed that by manipulating electron spin at a quantum magnetic tunneling junction - a nanoscale sandwich ma...

Building 'OLEDs' from the ground up for better electronics

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

In an LED display, the emissions from red, green and blue diodes are blended to create the white and colored light necessary to render images. It is crucially i...

Researchers image quasiparticles that could lead to faster circuits, higher bandwidths

Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)

"These are waves just like water waves," said Fei, an Iowa State University assistant professor of physics and astronomy and an associate of the U.S. Department...

Nitrides in Transition

Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)

As a semiconductor, GaN is similar to silicon, but it differs in its elemental makeup and properties, which makes it a more robust, rugged type of electronic ma...

Beyond Scaling: An Electronics Resurgence Initiative

Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)

The new initiative comes at a time when the microsystems technology community is facing an array of long-anticipated obstacles to its relentless and storied dec...

Engineer unveils new spin on future of transistors with novel design

Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)

"The concept brings together an assortment of existing nanoscale technologies and combines them in a new way," said Dr. Joseph S. Friedman, assistant professor ...

Using graphene to create quantum bits

May 30, 2017 (SPX)

In pursuit of this goal, researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements LPQM (STI/SB), have investigated a nonlinear graphene-based quan...

Study takes step toward mass-producible quantum computers

May 30, 2017 (SPX)

But practical, diamond-based quantum computing devices will require the ability to position those defects at precise locations in complex diamond structures, wh...

Controlled creation of quantum emitter arrays

May 30, 2017 (SPX)

Now, researchers in the Graphene Flagship working at the University of Cambridge, UK, have created large scale arrays of these quantum emitters in different TMD...

UW engineers borrow from electronics to build largest circuits in eukaryotic cells

May 30, 2017 (SPX)

But scientists - who want to harness the potential of cells as living computers that can respond to disease, efficiently produce biofuels or develop plant-based...

A new spin on electronics

May 30, 2017 (SPX)

The new study, published online in Nature Physics, is the first to show that organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites are a promising material class for spintronics...

Wafer-thin magnetic materials developed for future quantum technologies

May 30, 2017 (SPX)

For the first time, researchers have now produced a wafer-thin ferrimagnet, in which molecules with different magnetic centers arrange themselves on a gold surf...

Memristor chips that see patterns over pixels

May 28, 2017 (SPX)

Faster image processing could have big implications for autonomous systems such as self-driving cars, says Wei Lu, U-M professor of electrical engineering and c...

Testing quantum field theory in a quantum simulator

May 26, 2017 (SPX)

But these theories are often hard to test in an experiment. At the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at TU Wien, researchers have now demon...

Ultrafast tunable semiconductor metamaterial created

May 23, 2017 (SPX)

Optical metamaterials are man-made media that acquire unusual optical properties due to nanostructuring. For almost twenty years, researchers have been able to ...

Managing stress helps transistor performance

May 22, 2017 (SPX)

A research team in China have developed a new CESL method that introduces tensile stress into both the channel and the drift region, improving overall performan...