01/10/2018  Researchers integrated oxide two-dimensional electron gases with gallium arsenide and paved the way toward new opto-electrical devices.

01/09/2018  In this paper, researchers characterize the behavior of proteins, considered as classical amorphous semiconductors, with the help of the formalism of condensed matter physics. The authors have clearly shown the powerful methodology and instrumentation of condensed matter physics to be effective for fundamental research into the electrodynamics of biological objects. The next step could involve the application to biomaterials research of the wide range of other theories and models that have been effectively used by the physics community for many decades.

01/04/2018  Rice, Swansea scientists show that decontaminating nanotubes can simplify nanoscale devices.

12/21/2017  Researchers at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have shown that defects in monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) exhibit electrical switching, providing new insights into the electrical properties of this material. As MoS2 is one of the most promising 2D semiconductors, it is expected that these results will contribute to its future use in opto-electronics.

12/21/2017  The Korea Advanced Back-end Factory Integration Task Force, in response to the industry's demand, has decided to revise SEMI E142-0211 (Reapproved 1016), Specification for Substrate Mapping by adding an assembly and packaging raw materials traceability method.

12/18/2017  Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that the transfer of triplet excitons from nanomaterials to molecules also creates a feedback mechanism that returns some energy to the nanocrystal, causing it to photoluminesce on long time scales. The mechanism can be adjusted to control the amount of energy transfer, which could be useful in optoelectronic applications.

12/15/2017  More materials for electronic applications could be identified, thanks to the discovery of a new metal-organic framework (MOF) that displays electrical semiconduction with a record high photoresponsivity, by a global research collaboration.

12/11/2017  Heating a mixture of gases to furnace temperatures is one way to make a diamond film, nature's hardest substance. Adding boron to the gas mixture may create new materials.

12/06/2017  A new technology enables dramatically lower thermal budget capability that is enabling to thermal processes like epitaxy, CVD and diffusion, without any semiconductor material consumption.

12/01/2017  Smartphones and computers wouldn't be nearly as useful without room for lots of apps, music and videos. Devices tend to store that information in two ways: through electric fields (think of a flash drive) or through magnetic fields (like a computer's spinning hard disk). Each method has advantages and disadvantages. However, in the future, our electronics could benefit from the best of each.

11/30/2017  Empa researchers in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and the University of California at Berkeley have now succeeded in growing ribbons exactly nine atoms wide with a regular armchair edge from precursor molecules.

11/29/2017  Transphorm Inc. announced it received a $15 million investment from Yaskawa Electric Corporation.

11/17/2017  Scientists invent technique to map energy and momentum of electrons beneath a material's surface.

11/17/2017  A team of Hokkaido University researchers has developed a novel material synthesis method called proton-driven ion introduction (PDII) which utilizes a phenomenon similar to "ion billiards." The new method could pave the way for creating numerous new materials, thus drastically advancing materials sciences

11/10/2017  U.S. semiconductor chemical suppliers lost market share to Japanese and European competitors in every major segment over the past decade, according to a new report from The Information Network.

11/08/2017  The temperature impact on the performance of UHP pressure transducers is discussed.

11/08/2017  Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased during the third quarter 2017 when compared to second quarter 2017 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.

11/07/2017  The RC delay issues started a few nodes ago, and the problems are becoming worse.

11/06/2017  University of Utah researchers develop milestone for ultra-fast communications and computing.

11/03/2017  Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Riverside have developed a new, ultrafast method for electrically controlling magnetism in certain metals, a breakthrough that could lead to greatly increased performance and more energy-efficient computer memory and processing technologies