The upper part shows a cold spray copper coating, with very visible vortex-like structures twirling around an aluminum substrate in the bottom part (EBSD image).…
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Image of a heterotube diode: This device contains a MoS2 semiconductor shell (blue), over the insulator hBN shell (purple), over the carbon nanotube core (green)…
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Fused silica wafer with thickness of 350 um with high-quality glass vias of diameters between 0.25 mm and 6 mm fabricated by selective laser etching.…
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Researchers took to the field to study icing on this ridgetop wind farm in eastern China. Credit: Photo courtesy of Hui Hu/Iowa State University Researchers…
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Researchers have developed a data transfer system that pairs high-frequency silicon chips with a polymer cable as thin a strand of hair. Credit: Courtesy of…
View More New Data Transfer System Is 10 Times Faster Than USB and Uses Polymer Cable As Thin a Strand of Hair
Spintronic computing artistic concept illustration. Scientists at the University of Tsukuba and the Institute of High Pressure Physics fabricate a novel molybdenum disulfide transistor and…
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The system lowered the temperature inside a test system in an outdoor environment under direct sunlight by more than 12 degrees Celsius (22 degrees Fahrenheit).…
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Computer-generated unfolding animation of sealed letter DB-1538. In our paper we describe how “virtual unfolding” was used to read the contents of sealed letterpackets from…
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Retinal implants can give artificial vision to the blind. Credit: Alain Herzog / 2021 EPFL Being able to make blind people see again sounds like…
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These images of “islands” of gold atoms deposited on a layer of two-dimensional molybdenum sulfide were produced by two different modes, using a new scanning…
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