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World’s most efficient semiconductor material for managing heat and energy efficiency

World’s most efficient semiconductor material for managing heat and energy efficiency

New material draws heat away from hotspots much faster than current materials, which could lead to dramatic improvements in computer chip performance and energy efficiency Working to address... Read more

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A new semiconductor is as flexible as skin and easily degradable

A new semiconductor is as flexible as skin and easily degradable

A new semiconductor developed by Stanford researchers is as flexible as skin and easily degradable. It could have diverse medical and environmental applications, without adding to the mounti... Read more

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Flexible inorganic double helix material can be adapted to a wide range of applications

Flexible inorganic double helix material can be adapted to a wide range of applications

A flexible semiconductor for electronics, solar technology and photo catalysis It is the double helix, with its stable and flexible structure of genetic information, that made life on Earth... Read more

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Black Phosphorus (BP) Surges Ahead of Graphene

Black Phosphorus (BP) Surges Ahead of Graphene

A Korean team of scientists tune BP’s band gap to form a superior conductor, allowing for the application to be mass produced for electronic and optoelectronics devices The research team ope... Read more

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Sticky tape and phosphorus the key to ultrathin solar cells

Sticky tape and phosphorus the key to ultrathin solar cells

Scientists studying thin layers of phosphorus have found surprising properties that could open the door to ultrathin and ultralight solar cells and LEDs Scientists studying thin layers of ph... Read more

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Bonelike 3-D silicon synthesized for potential use with medical devices

Bonelike 3-D silicon synthesized for potential use with medical devices

Semiconducting silicon spicules engage tissue like a bee stinger Researchers have developed a new approach for better integrating medical devices with biological systems. The researchers, le... Read more

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Radio chip for the “Internet of things”

Radio chip for the “Internet of things”

Circuit that reduces power leakage when transmitters are idle could greatly extend battery life. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the big theme was the “Internet of thi... Read more

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Rice-sized maser, powered one electron at a time, bodes well for quantum computing

Rice-sized maser, powered one electron at a time, bodes well for quantum computing

Princeton University researchers have built a rice grain-sized laser powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots. The tiny microwave laser, or... Read more

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Low Cost, Super Efficient Offshore Wind Turbines for a Clean Energy Future

Low Cost, Super Efficient Offshore Wind Turbines for a Clean Energy Future

Researchers from UOW are developing technologies for next generation offshore wind turbines that are one-third the price and 1,000 times more efficient, and they could be installed off the c... Read more

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New ORNL electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package

New ORNL electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package

Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter,... Read more

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Better Fuel Cells: Angling chromium to let oxygen through

Better Fuel Cells: Angling chromium to let oxygen through

More efficient fuel cells might gain wider use in vehicles or as quiet, pollution-free, neighborhood electricity generating stations. Researchers have been trying to increase the efficiency... Read more

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Proteins that replace silicon: A semi-artificial leaf faster than “natural” photosynthesis

Proteins that replace silicon: A semi-artificial leaf faster than “natural” photosynthesis

This procedure yields the highest photocurrents observed to date for semi-artificial bio-photoelectrodes while the electron transfer rate exceeds by one order of magnitude the one observed i... Read more

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Pairing old technologies with new for next generation electronic devices

Pairing old technologies with new for next generation electronic devices

UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons in semi-conducting materials, offering a radical way to dev... Read more

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New Material Allows for Ultra-Thin Solar Cells – only three atomic layers thick

New Material Allows for Ultra-Thin Solar Cells - only three atomic layers thick

The material could be used for glass fronts, letting most of the light in, but still creating electricity. Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to combine two semic... Read more

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With graphene a narrow enough ribbon will transform a conductor into a semiconductor

With graphene a narrow enough ribbon will transform a conductor into a semiconductor

Adding function to graphene nano-ribbons through this process could make possible the sought-after goal of atomic-scale components made of the same material, but with different electrical be... Read more

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