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Materials Science Apr 12, 2021

Painting with semiconductors

AMOLF researchers Lukas Helmbrecht and Wim Noorduin have developed a reactive ink that can be painted on an equally reactive canvas. The ink reacts with the material on the canvas to become a semiconductor that emits colored ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 8, 2021

Researchers report breakthrough that enables practical semiconductor spintronics

It may be possible in the future to use information technology where electron spin is used to store, process and transfer information in quantum computers. It has long been the goal of scientists to be able to use spin-based ...

Condensed Matter Mar 23, 2021

An exotic metal-insulator transition in a surface-doped transition metal dichalcogenide

Metal-insulator transition (MIT) driven by many-body interactions is an important phenomenon in condensed matter physics. Exotic phases always emerge around the metal-insulator transition points where quantum fluctuations ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 15, 2021

Millimeter wave photonics with terahertz semiconductor lasers

The volume of wireless telecommunication traffic is expected to surge in the near future with a continual increase in data traffic and corresponding necessary increases in bandwidth. It has therefore become imperative to ...

Nanophysics Mar 5, 2021

Light in concert with force reveals how materials become harder when illuminated

Semiconductor materials play an indispensable role in our modern information-oriented society. For reliable performance of semiconductor devices, these materials need to have superior mechanical properties: they must be strong ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 16, 2021

A sharper look at the interior of semiconductors

Images provide information—what we can observe with our own eyes enables us to understand. Constantly expanding the field of perception into dimensions that are initially hidden from the naked eye, drives science forward. ...

Materials Science Feb 1, 2021

Brightening the future of semiconductor-based photocatalytic processes

A collaboration between the Pericàs group with Prof. Timothy Noël and Dr. Paola Riente at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, The Netherlands), has crystallized in a Nature Communications paper where they provide ...

Nanomaterials Jan 21, 2021

Angstrom multilayer metrology by combining spectral measurements and machine learning

With the recent explosive demand for data storage, ranging from data centers to various smart and connected devices, the need for higher-capacity and more compact memory devices is constantly increasing. As a result, semiconductor ...

Analytical Chemistry Jan 19, 2021

Semiconductor chip that detects exhaled gas with high sensitivity at room temperature

Third-year doctoral student Toshiaki Takahashi, associate professor Kazuhiro Takahashi, and their research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 17, 2020

Enhanced interactions through strong light-matter coupling

Why do two-dimensional exciton-polaritons interact? The exciton-polariton quasiparticle is part light (photon), and part matter (exciton). Their excitonic (matter) part confers them the ability to interact with other particles, ...

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