News tagged with semiconducting

X-Ray Vision: seeing plastic mixtures inside and out

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two scientists working in Europe have paved the way for improved plastic electronics by devising a technique that can be used to take images of plastic mixtures on the nanoscale simultaneously ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 28, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Molding the Future of Plastic Electronic Production

(PhysOrg.com) -- E-readers that can be bent and folded, "smart" bandages that signal when they need changing based on oxygen levels, and biodegradable radio frequency identification tags that help companies ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mechanical devices stamped on plastic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microelectromechanical devices -- tiny machines with moving parts -- are everywhere these days: they monitor air pressure in car tires, register the gestures of video game players, and reflect ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New fiber nanogenerators could lead to electric clothing

(PhysOrg.com) -- In research that gives literal meaning to the term "power suit," University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 12, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Stretchable Nanotube Films May Advance Medical Electronics (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues hindering the development of medical electronic devices capable of being implanted in the human body is the lack of suitable materials. Most semiconducting materials are ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1 feature

New, Unusual Semiconductor is a Switch-Hitter

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group in Germany has discovered a semiconducting material that can switch its semiconducting properties -- turning from one type of semiconductor to another -- via a simple change in temperature. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (30) | comments 8 feature

Carbon nanotube 'ink' may lead to thinner, lighter transistors and solar cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a simple chemical process, scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method of preparing carbon nanotubes for suspension in a semiconducting "ink," which can then be printed into ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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