Schematic diagram of the prevention and early treatment system for diabetic retinopathy using wirelessly driven smart contact lenses equipped with LEDs. Credit: POSTECH Smart LED…
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New Organic Transistor Enables Higher Density Circuit Integration for High-Performance Mobile Devices
A new organic anti-ambipolar transistor has been developed that is capable of performing any one of the five logic gate operations by adjusting the input…
View More New Organic Transistor Enables Higher Density Circuit Integration for High-Performance Mobile DevicesOn-Chip Photodetection: 2D Material Heterojunctions for “Post-Moore Era” Microelectronics
Figure 1. Schematic of the waveguide-integrated van der Waals PN heterojunction photodetector. Credit: Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS…
View More On-Chip Photodetection: 2D Material Heterojunctions for “Post-Moore Era” MicroelectronicsFaster Than the Speed of Light: Overcoming the Physical Limitations of Today’s Telecommunications
With a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, a team of researchers and experts from industry and
View More Faster Than the Speed of Light: Overcoming the Physical Limitations of Today’s TelecommunicationsProducing High-Quality Graphene Cheaply Using Carbon Monoxide
Snowflakes etched in graphene at Skoltech. The light areas are graphene, and the dark ones are oxidized copper. The snowflake pattern emerged as the surrounding…
View More Producing High-Quality Graphene Cheaply Using Carbon MonoxideOn the Edge: New Magnetic Phenomenon Discovered With Industrial Potential
Illustration of edge magnetism discovered in CrGeTe3 using nanoscale magnetic microscopy. Credit: Ori Lerman Working with the tiniest magnets, Hebrew University discovers a new magnetic…
View More On the Edge: New Magnetic Phenomenon Discovered With Industrial Potential4,100 Feet Underground, Scientists Test a Unique Geothermal Energy System
Team collaborates on assembling and testing “rock star” system 4,100 feet underground A team of scientists has assembled a first-of-its-kind system to help them understand…
View More 4,100 Feet Underground, Scientists Test a Unique Geothermal Energy SystemPhotosynthesis Power: A Reliable and Renewable Biological Photovoltaic Cell
This system, containing blue-green algae, powered a microprocessor continuously for a year using nothing but ambient light and water. Credit: Paolo Bombelli Algae-Powered Computing Scientists…
View More Photosynthesis Power: A Reliable and Renewable Biological Photovoltaic CellLaser Pulses for Ultrafast Signal Processing Could Make Computers a Million Times Faster
Illustration of the gold-graphene structure in which electron waves from real and virtual charges are targeted with two ultrafast laser pulses. The combined effect can…
View More Laser Pulses for Ultrafast Signal Processing Could Make Computers a Million Times FasterPrintable, Self-Assembled Logic Circuits Created From Proteins
Researchers constructed self-assembled, protein-based circuits that can perform simple logic functions to demonstrate that it is possible to create stable digital circuits that take advantage…
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