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Superconductivity Jun 5, 2025

Physicists figure out how an electric field can switch off superconductivity

Transistors are fundamental to microchips and modern electronics. Invented by Bardeen and Brattain in 1947, their development is one of the 20th century's key scientific milestones. Transistors work by controlling electric ...

Quantum Physics May 20, 2025

Quantum heat circuits: A diode framework for quantum thermal transistors

Transistors are the fundamental building blocks behind today's electronic revolution, powering everything from smartphones to powerful servers by controlling the flow of electrical currents. But imagine a parallel world, ...

Optics & Photonics May 19, 2025

Researchers are developing world's first petahertz-speed phototransistor in ambient conditions

What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors? A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to make that ...

General Physics Apr 3, 2025

A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon

A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component. Their paper is published in ...

Nanophysics Mar 31, 2025

Defect removal technique paves the way for faster, low-power semiconductors

A research team, led by Professor Jimin Kwon from the Department of Electrical Engineering at UNIST, in collaboration with Professor Yong-Young Noh and his research team from the Department of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH, ...

Nanophysics Mar 27, 2025

Transistor reshapes electronic properties of a 2D material

A RIKEN study shows that squeezing the right amount of potassium ions between the atomic layers of molybdenum disulfide can turn it from a semiconductor into a metal, superconductor or insulator. The same layered material ...

Analytical Chemistry Mar 18, 2025

Synthesized molecular rings could improve efficiency and flexibility of displays, solar cells and transistors

Scientists at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna, have unveiled an innovative approach for synthesizing azaparacyclophanes (APCs), a class of highly advanced ring-shaped molecular structures with immense ...

Biotechnology Feb 26, 2025

Organic electrochemical transistors enhance bioelectronic sensor sensitivity by three orders of magnitude

In a breakthrough that could transform bioelectronic sensing, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Rice University has developed a new method to dramatically enhance the sensitivity of enzymatic and microbial fuel ...

Nanomaterials Jan 6, 2025

Innovative doping technique boosts semiconductor nanocrystal performance

A research team has successfully developed a new technology to control doping at the nucleus (seed) phase to increase the performance of semiconductor nanocrystals. The study uncovered how the doping process and location ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 2, 2025

Starlight to sight: Researchers develop short-wave infrared technology to allow starlight detection

Prof Zhang Zhiyong's team at Peking University developed a heterojunction-gated field-effect transistor (HGFET) that achieves high sensitivity in short-wave infrared detection, with a recorded specific detectivity above 1014 ...

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