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General Physics Dec 3, 2020

Researchers pioneer a revolutionary new method to directly observe dark excitons

Heralding the end of a decade-long quest, in a promising new class of extremely thin, two-dimensional semiconductors, scientists have for the first time directly visualized and measured elusive particles, called dark excitons, ...

Analytical Chemistry Dec 1, 2020

A semiconductor chip detects antigen concentrations at 1 parts per quadrillion molar mass

Associate Professor Kazuhiro Takahashi and Assistant Professor Yong-Joon Choi of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology have developed a chip that can sense ...

Nanomaterials Nov 23, 2020

Strain engineering of 2-D semiconductor and graphene

Strain engineering usually refers to a kind of material processing technology which aims to regulate the properties of materials or optimize related devices' performance by inherent or external strain. In recent years, with ...

Nanomaterials Nov 13, 2020

Producing materials to help break the electronics scaling limit

Ph.D. candidate Saravana Balaji Basuvalingam at the TU/e Department of Applied Physics has developed a new approach to grow, in a controlled and effective way, a library of so-called "TMC materials" with various properties ...

Materials Science Nov 11, 2020

Turning heat into power with efficient organic thermoelectric material

Thermoelectric materials can turn a temperature difference into electricity. Organic thermoelectric materials could be used to power wearable electronics or sensors; however, the power output is still very low. An international ...

Materials Science Nov 11, 2020

Researchers make theoretical prediction of 2-D semiconductor tin dioxide

Recently, Prof. Zheng Xiaohong's research group from the Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) of the Hefei Institute of Physical Science (HFIPS) predicted a new two-dimensional (2-D) tin dioxide (SnO2) monolayer phase ...

Condensed Matter Nov 5, 2020

Blue phosphorus: How a semiconductor becomes a metal

The chemical element phosphorus is considered one of the most essential elements for life. Phosphorus compounds are deeply involved in the structure and function of organisms. Every human carries about one kilogram of it ...

Condensed Matter Nov 4, 2020

Scientists develop method to detect charge traps in organic semiconductors

Scientists at Swansea University have developed a very sensitive method to detect the tiny signatures of so called 'charge traps' in organic semiconductors.

Optics & Photonics Oct 29, 2020

A new method to measure optical absorption in semiconductor crystals

Tohoku University researchers have revealed more details about omnidirectional photoluminescence (ODPL) spectroscopy—a method for probing semiconducting crystals with light to detect defects and impurities.

Nanomaterials Oct 13, 2020

Hall error revelations raise aspirations for 2-D materials

One of the first things people do when they come across a new material with potentially interesting electronic properties is measure the Hall voltage. Never has this been more true than with the explosion of new 2-D materials, ...

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