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December 24, 2024

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Tiny, Wireless Antennas Use Light to Monitor Cellular Communication

Dec. 20, 2024 — Researchers developed a biosensing technique that eliminates the need for wires. Instead, tiny, wireless antennas use light to detect minute electrical signals in the solution around ...

Engineering Researchers Develop Revolutionary Diamond Fabrication Technology

Dec. 19, 2024 — A research team has developed a groundbreaking method for massively producing ultrathin and ultra-flexible diamond ...

Engineers Grow 'High-Rise' 3D Chips

Dec. 18, 2024 — Researchers can now fabricate a 3D chip with alternating layers of semiconducting material grown directly on top of each other. The method eliminates thick silicon substrates between the layers, leading to better and faster computation, for ...

Physics: Current Generated by the Quantum Hall Effect Has Additional Magnetic Properties

Dec. 17, 2024 — The quantum Hall effect, a fundamental effect in quantum mechanics, not only generates an electric but also a magnetic current. It arises from the motion of electrons on an orbit around the nuclei of ...

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Generate Electricity by Attaching Device to Your Clothes

Dec. 16, 2024 — A research team has developed a highly efficient wearable energy harvester that can power electronic devices using only body ...

New Discovery by Scientists Redefines Magnetism

Dec. 17, 2024 — Step into a world so tiny, it defies imagination -- the nanoscale. Picture a single strand of hair, now shrink it a million times. You've arrived. Here, atoms and molecules are the architects of ...

Fast, Rewritable Computing With DNA Origami Registers

Dec. 11, 2024 — DNA stores the instructions for life and, along with enzymes and other molecules, computes everything from hair color to risk of developing diseases. Harnessing that prowess and immense storage ...

Unlocking Next-Gen Chip Efficiency: Confirming Thermal Insights for Tiny Circuits

Dec. 12, 2024 — A team of researchers unlock heat flow principles in ultra-thin metals, paving the way for faster, smaller, more efficient computer ...

Breakthrough Brings Body-Heat Powered Wearable Devices Closer to Reality

Dec. 12, 2024 — A research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for ...

Smallest Molecular Machine: Reversible Sliding Motion in Ammonium-Linked Ferrocene

Dec. 12, 2024 — Ferrocene is a key molecule for developing molecular machines. However, it readily decomposes on the surface of flat noble metal substrates, marking ...

Discovery of New Growth-Directed Graphene Stacking Domains May Precede New Era for Quantum Applications

Dec. 10, 2024 — Researchers discovered that three-layer graphene can naturally self-organize into specific stacking patterns (ABA/ABC domains) during growth on ...

Observation of New Electric Field Signals Strong Potential for Assorted Devices

Dec. 8, 2024 — A new vortex electric field with the potential to enhance future electronic, magnetic and optical devices has been observed by ...

Advancing the Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Gold Monolayers

Dec. 10, 2024 — Nanostructured two-dimensional gold monolayers offer possibilities in catalysis, electronics, and ...

The Last Missing Piece of Silicon Photonics

Dec. 9, 2024 — Scientists have developed the first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser composed exclusively of elements from the fourth group of the periodic table -- the 'silicon group'. Built ...

Battery-Like Computer Memory Keeps Working Above 1000°F

Dec. 9, 2024 — Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of ...

Researchers Demonstrate Self-Assembling Electronics

Dec. 2, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for self-assembling electronic devices. The proof-of-concept work was used to create diodes and transistors, and paves the way for self-assembling more ...

Temporary Tattoo Printed Directly on the Scalp Offers Easy, Hair-Friendly Solution for Measuring Brainwaves

Dec. 2, 2024 — Scientists have invented a liquid ink that doctors can print onto a patient's scalp to measure brain activity. The technology offers a promising alternative to the cumbersome process currently ...

Photonic Processor Could Enable Ultrafast AI Computations With Extreme Energy Efficiency

Dec. 2, 2024 — Researchers developed a fully integrated photonic processor that can perform all the key computations of a deep neural network on a photonic chip, using light. This advance could improve the speed ...

New Laser Technique Achieves Atomic-Scale Precision on Diamond Surfaces

Dec. 2, 2024 — Research is paving the way for advanced diamond-based technologies in electronics and quantum ...

Bendable Electronic Parts Heat Up by Themselves Like 'Heat Pack' and Lower the Manufacturing Temperature Barrier

Dec. 2, 2024 — A research team has developed liquid-processed thin-film transistors that can maintain high performance at low temperatures -- They are expected to be used in the next generation of high-performance ...

In Major Materials Breakthrough, Team Solves a Nearly 200-Year-Old Challenge in Polymers

Nov. 27, 2024 — Researchers' new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn't sacrifice stretchability for ...

Scientists Produce High-Power Attosecond X-Ray Pulses at Megahertz Repetition Rates

Nov. 25, 2024 — A research team has achieved a major advance in X-ray science by generating unprecedented high-power attosecond hard X-ray pulses at megahertz repetition rates. This advancement opens new frontiers ...

Physicists Develop New Method to Visualize Magnetic Nanostructures With High Resolution

Nov. 20, 2024 — A new method enables researchers to analyse magnetic nanostructures with a high resolution. The new method achieves a resolution of around 70 nanometers, whereas normal light microscopes have a ...

New Method of Generating Eco-Friendly Energy

Nov. 19, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method of growing organic crystals that can be used for energy-harvesting ...

Research Reveals Unseen Factors Behind Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation

Nov. 13, 2024 — An international team of scientists has identified a surprising factor that accelerates the degradation of lithium-ion batteries leading to a steady loss of charge. This discovery provides a new ...

How 'Clean' Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be?

Nov. 13, 2024 — How to keep stray radiation from 'shorting' superconducting qubits; a pair of studies shows where ionizing radiation is lurking and how to banish ...

New Material to Make Next Generation of Electronics Faster and More Efficient

Nov. 8, 2024 — Researchers have created a new material that will be pivotal in making the next generation of high-power electronics faster, transparent and more ...

Nanoscale Transistors Could Enable More Efficient Electronics

Nov. 4, 2024 — Nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials can operate more efficiently than silicon-based devices, leveraging quantum mechanical properties to potentially enable ...

The Silk Thread That Can Turn Clothes Into Charging Stations

Oct. 31, 2024 — Imagine a sweater that powers electronics to monitor your health or charge your mobile phone while running. This development faces challenges because of the lack of materials that both conduct ...

Off the Clothesline, on the Grid: MXene Nanomaterials Enable Wireless Charging in Textiles

Oct. 31, 2024 — The next step for fully integrated textile-based electronics to make their way from the lab to the wardrobe is figuring out how to power the garment gizmos without unfashionably toting around a solid ...

Spin Current Observations from Organic Semiconductor Side

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers have succeeded in observing the effects of spin current transfer and spin current generation from the non-magnetic side of a device, using a multilayer device consisting of a ...

Breakthrough in Magnetism Could Transform Quantum Computing and Superconductors

Oct. 30, 2024 — A discovery by physicists is unlocking a new understanding of magnetism and electronic interactions in cutting-edge materials, potentially revolutionizing technology fields such as quantum computing ...

Quantum Simulator Could Help Uncover Materials for High-Performance Electronics

Oct. 30, 2024 — Researchers created a synthetic magnetic field using a superconducting quantum processor, which could enable them to precisely study complex phenomena in materials, like phase changes. This could ...

Developing New High-Performance and Recyclable Materials

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new material poised to advance high-sensitivity recyclable sensor technology. The team created a recyclable high-sensitivity sensor based on the dynamic ...