Atomically Thin Materials Could Extend Moore's Law As New Transistors

Medicine & Technology May 17, 2021

Now that conventional technologies are reaching their physical limits, researchers are looking for alternative methods to create more powerful devices.

Quantum Tech One Step Closer With New Single Photon Switch

Apr 29, 2021

Single photon switches, which can turn physical processes on or off by using only a single packet of light, have far-reaching implications for quantum photonic technologies - and a new breakthrough makes it one step closer to realization.

US Delivers Another Blow To the Chinese Tech Industry Through SMIC

Sep 28, 2020

The United States government has reportedly imposed a new set of restrictions, this time aimed at Chinese tech giant SMIC, further isolating China from the rest of the global tech market.

Ultraclean Graphene As High Performance Magnetic Field Sensors

Aug 21, 2020

A team from Cornell University has fabricated a miniature magnetic field sensor, using an ultrathin graphene "sandwich," that offers detection over a greater temperature change with enough sensitivity to sense subtleties in magnetic fields.

X-Rays Show Monolayer Phase in Organic Semiconductor

Jul 09, 2019

The structure of monolayer that the team discovered is favorable for charge transport along the plane of the film, making it significant for flexible electronics applications

The First Step toward Ultra-High-Speed Wi-Fi

Apr 25, 2019

Researchers have found out a way to extract and transmit wireless signals from laser frequency combs

Metal nanoclusters can be used as semiconductors: Key properties observed for first time

Mar 27, 2019

Tiny nanoclusters of metal atoms—such as gold and silver—have properties which mean they can be used as semiconductors, a joint Swansea-Hamburg research team has discovered.

Researchers Have Constructed The World's Thinnest One-Dimensional Metallic Nanowire.

May 22, 2017

Researchers at Cambridge and the University of Warwick have jumped ahead to its logical endpoint and shrunk wires down to a string of single atoms.

Scientists Have Gone A Step Further In Quantum Computer Discovery

May 21, 2017

IBM Scientists Demonstrate Ballistic Nanowire Connections, A Potential Future Key Component for Quantum Computing.

Scientists Discover The Ability to Determine Semiconductor Nanocrystals with Optical Crystallography Method

May 20, 2017

Developing semiconductor nanocrystals is now easier with the new method to determine the capability of the crystal, and scientists have achieved the first significant examples of the methodology.