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Nanophysics Jun 29, 2020

Team shows how to store data using 2-D materials instead of silicon chips

A Stanford-led team has invented a way to store data by sliding atomically thin layers of metal over one another, an approach that could pack more data into less space than silicon chips, while also using less energy.

General Physics Jun 1, 2020

New properties of cosmic rays, silicon, magnesium and neon found by Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard ISS

A very large team of researchers from around the globe has found new properties of the cosmic rays silicon, magnesium and neon using data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the International Space Station. In their ...

Condensed Matter Apr 28, 2020

Wide bandgap semiconductor devices based on silicon carbide may revolutionize electronics

Growth of high-quality substrates for microelectronic applications is one of the key elements helping drive society toward a more sustainable green economy. Today, silicon plays a central role within the semiconductor industry ...

Materials Science Mar 27, 2020

Research into perovskite-silicon tandem cells shows new path to take

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), working in collaboration with their counterparts in the Republic of Korea, have validated the potential of using a combination of perovskite and silicon to create ...

Quantum Physics Mar 17, 2020

Machine learning to scale up the quantum computer

,,Quantum computers are expected to offer tremendous computational power for complex problems –currently intractable even on supercomputers—in the areas of drug design, data science, astronomy and materials chemistry among ...

General Physics Mar 5, 2020

Variations in the vibrations of beams of silicon create a sensitive way of measuring pressure changes

A micrometer-scale, low-power consumption pressure sensor has been developed by KAUST scientists, with potential applications in vacuum environments.

Optics & Photonics Mar 4, 2020

First bufferless 1.5 μm III-V lasers grown directly on silicon wafers in Si-photonics

Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have reported the world's first 1.5 μm III-V lasers directly grown on the industry-standard 220 nm SOI (silicon-on-insulators) wafers without buffer, ...

Materials Science Mar 3, 2020

Graphene, perovskites, and silicon—an ideal tandem for efficient solar cells

Researchers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and its spin-off, Graphene Flagship Associate Member BeDimensional, in cooperation with ENEA have successfully combined graphene ...

Materials Science Jan 22, 2020

Researchers test cells with silicon anodes, alumina coatings that protect cathodes

The process of developing better rechargeable batteries may be cloudy, but there's an alumina lining.

Optics & Photonics Jan 13, 2020

Hyperuniform disordered waveguides and devices for near infrared silicon photonics

In a new report published on Scientific Reports, Milan M. Milošević and an international research team at the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, Etaphase Incorporated and the Departments of Chemistry, Physics ...

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