A team led by Peng Zhou at Fudan University has built a radio-frequency communication system from atomically thin molybdenum ...

Since silicon is the third most abundant element on Earth (after iron and oxygen), it is undoubtedly a readily accessible raw material. It is a significant component of solar cells and electronic ...

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Embedded silicon capacitors, or ECAPs, aim to solve issues of power integrity from inside the processor’s package.

The term ‘bandgap’ refers to the energy difference between a material’s insulating and conducting states, a critical factor determining its electrical conductivity. As shown in figure 1, with its wide ...

Researchers have developed advanced terahertz photodetectors containing 'living' microelectrodes. A vanadium dioxide (VO2) layer was precisely deposited on a silicon substrate. Temperature regulation ...

AMES, Iowa – When Valery Levitas left Europe in 1999, he packed up a rotational diamond anvil cell and brought it to the United States. He and the researchers in his group are still using a ...

As silicon-based electronics approach fundamental limits, researchers are turning to molecules as the smallest possible functional devices. Molecular electronics replaces conventional transistors with ...

Silicon photonics, which integrates optical and electrical components onto a single package, is used for high-speed interconnects in computing systems between processors, memory, and other resources.

Physicists found why holes move slower than electrons in silicon: not defects, but higher intrinsic mass, supporting CMOS-based quantum, cryogenic, and space devices. The finding shows the difference ...

Scientists have used pressure with a twisting shear to permanently deform silicon, an important material for electronics. The resulting changes in silicon's microstructure produce material phases that ...