Review paper analyzes opportunities and obstacles for III-V nanowires in solar energy harvesting.
Bistable graphene transistor developed
May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Device is capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening.
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Process turns carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals
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Rice University strategy turns negatively charged carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and films.
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Nanodevices can be both battery and memory
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Resistive memory cells open up new possibilities in nanoelectronics.
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Piezoelectric devices could give robots a sense of touch
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Researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals.
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Cause of LED “droop” identified
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and École Polytechnique confirm that Auger recombination theory is responsible for LED droop phenomenon.
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Zinc oxide can be used for UV lasers, LEDs
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Researchers have solved a long-standing materials science problem, making it possible to create new semiconductor devices using zinc oxide.
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All-graphene flexible photodetector developed
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Device developed at the University of Exeter is both flexible and transparent.
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2D nanocrystals developed for future computing applications
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Technology is based on metal di-chalogenides, which are emerging as potential candidates to replace current CMOS materials.
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Microtransistor will improve study of the human brain
April 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
French scientists have produced the world’s first microscopic, organic transistors that can amplify and record signals from within the brain itself.
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