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Researchers use silicon nanoparticles for enhancing solar cells efficiency

09/06/2018  An international research group improved perovskite solar cells efficiency by using materials with better light absorption properties.

Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures

08/31/2018  Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic "building blocks" from which stable structures formed.

Watching two-dimensional materials grow

08/30/2018  Atomically thin crystals will play an ever greater role in future -- but how can their crystallisation process be controlled? A new method is now opening up new possibilities.

All wired up: New molecular wires for single-molecule electronic devices

08/28/2018  Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of molecular wire doped with organometallic ruthenium to achieve unprecedentedly higher conductance than earlier molecular wires.

Worldwide semiconductor revenue hit record $120.8B in Q2 2018

08/22/2018  Samsung Electronics, Intel and SK Hynix continued to lead the semiconductor market in Q2 2018.

New material could improve efficiency of computer processing and memory

08/22/2018  Discovery could have major impact on semiconductor industry.

Sanan IC goes global, emerges as a world-class III-V technology platform company

08/22/2018  Sanan Integrated Circuit Co., a pure-play compound semiconductor foundry, today announces its entry into the North American, European, and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets with their advanced III-V technology platform.

TowerJazz to showcase SiGe and silicon photonic process solutions for 100 to 400Gb/s optical data links at ECOC

08/21/2018  The Company will showcase its advanced SiGe (Silicon Germanium) process, with speeds in excess of 300GHz, and its newest production SiPho (Silicon Photonics) process built into data center high-speed optical data links.

A valley so low: Electrons congregate in ways that could be useful to 'valleytronics'

08/20/2018  A Princeton-led study has revealed an emergent electronic behavior on the surface of bismuth crystals that could lead to insights on the growing area of technology known as "valleytronics."

Most wear-resistant metal alloy in the world engineered at Sandia National Laboratories

08/16/2018  Sandia's materials science team has engineered a platinum-gold alloy believed to be the most wear-resistant metal in the world.

Cabot Microelectronics to acquire KMG Chemicals

08/15/2018  Cabot Microelectronics Corporation and KMG Chemicals, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement under which Cabot Microelectronics will acquire KMG in a cash and stock transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $1.6 billion.

For UW physicists, the 2-D form of tungsten ditelluride is full of surprises

08/10/2018  The general public might think of the 21st century as an era of revolutionary technological platforms, such as smartphones or social media. But for many scientists, this century is the era of another type of platform: two-dimensional materials, and their unexpected secrets.

Yale-NUS scientist and collaborators solve open theoretical problem on electron interactions

08/10/2018  The discovery will help scientists better understand electron interaction in new materials, paving the way for developing advanced electronics such as faster processors.

Tying down electrons with nanoribbons

08/08/2018  'Topological' graphene nanoribbons trap electrons for new quantum materials

Nanotube 'rebar' makes graphene twice as tough

08/06/2018  Rice University scientists test material that shows promise for flexible electronics.

'Strange metals' just got stranger

08/03/2018  A material already known for its unique behavior is found to carry current in a way never before observed.

Leti and CMP announce world's first multi-project wafer service with integrated silicon OxRAM

08/02/2018  Leti, a research institute at CEA Tech, and CMP, a service organization that provides prototyping and low-volume production of ICs and MEMS, today announced the integrated-circuit industry's first multi-project-wafer (MPW) process for fabricating emerging non-volatile memory OxRAM devices on a 200mm foundry base-wafer platform.

Optical secrets of disulfide nanotubes are disclosed by Lomonosov MSU Scientists

08/01/2018  They have demonstrated a strong light-matter interaction in suspensions and self-assembled films of tungsten disulfide nanotubes.

A colossal breakthrough for topological spintronics

07/31/2018  BiSb expands the potential of topological insulators for ultra-low-power electronic devices.

EPFL uses excitons to take electronics into the future

07/27/2018  EPFL researchers have developed a transistor based on excitons -- a type of particle most people have not heard of -- that is able to function at room temperature.




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