Faster flexible electronics and more efficient solar cells are the promise of gallium arsenide as researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) begin to work on photov

Semiconductors | 16-11-2018

Computers that produce far less heat yet compute at higher frequencies than today’s machines are possible with spin waves, signals that propagate due to magnetic fields, not curren

09-11-2018

Electronics that can monitor a person’s physiological and biochemical signals for disease but have no battery because they are powered by the patient’s own glucose have been develo

02-11-2018

Building molecular electronics with individual molecules using synthetic Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) origami nanostructures that self-assemble is the goal of researchers at the Mis

25-10-2018

Boron nitride is a semiconductor that could be used to make electrical equipment able to convert power more efficiently than silicon wafer technologies, up to three to 4% more effi

Semiconductors | 15-10-2018

Quantum computers could be mass produced at low cost with silicon microchips that have large-scale waveguides, optical tracks, for photons, instead of circuits for electrons contro

05-10-2018

A heat sink more than three times better than copper could be commercially available in a couple of years after engineers found a way to make the semiconductor boron-arsenide virtu

Semiconductors | 28-09-2018

Quantum cascade lasers could allow the ever-smaller transistors to operate at low power and lower temperatures without the problems associated with conventional designs. Transistor

20-09-2018

Gold and semiconductors are to be assembled into nano-structures using a genetically engineered virus that was originally found in the Escherichia coli bacteria, which is typically

14-09-2018