Phase-change semiconductors have the ability to switch back and forth between amorphous (non-crystalline solid) and crystalline phases upon heating. As such, they are used widely in data storage and computer memory applications, ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 18, 2012
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Sensors used in harsh conditions, such as deep-sea oil wells, must withstand extreme temperatures and pressures for hundreds of hours without failing. Vivek Chidambaram and co-workers at the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics, ...
Engineering
Feb 27, 2013
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A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at the Dresden University of Technology have demonstrated the ...
Nanophysics
Feb 3, 2017
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Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have fabricated a new semiconductor material—germanium tin deposited in layers on a substrate of silicon—that could be used to build better and less expensive infrared ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 19, 2014
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For the first time, germanium nanowires have been deposited on indium tin oxide substrate by a simple, one-step process called electrodeposition.
Nanophysics
Apr 27, 2015
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Decades of optimization have made the electronic switch both tiny and efficient. Yet engineers continue to adapt it to meet the increasingly demanding requirements of new applications. One such emerging requirement is the ...
Condensed Matter
May 4, 2011
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It's one thing to design and build a brand-new piece of technology, to test it and tune it until it works just right.
General Physics
Feb 28, 2012
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CPUs are built using semiconductor technology, which is capable of putting billions of transistors onto a single chip. Now, researchers from the group of Menno Veldhorst at QuTech, a collaboration between TU Delft and TNO, ...
Nanophysics
Mar 24, 2021
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An innovative X-ray method enables new high-pressure investigations of samples under deep mantle conditions. The technique, which was developed by a team led by Georg Spiekermann from DESY, the German Research Centre for ...
General Physics
Feb 11, 2019
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Targeting high frequency radio applications, NXP Semiconductors today announced the launch of a series of new products developed in the latest SiGe (silicon-germanium) process technology.
Electronics & Semiconductors
May 13, 2010
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