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Electrical Treatment of Metallic Films Could be a Viable Strategy for Reducing Surface Roughness

Surface roughness reduction is very important for fundamental surface physics and while fabricating optical and electronic devices.

8 Mar 2017

Coffee-Ring Pattern in Semiconductor Droplet Leads to High-Quality Polycrystal Semiconductors

Customized polycrystals that can be used for fabricating highly versatile and faster semiconductors have been developed, due to an accidental observation of crystals that formed a mark similar to the stain left by a coffee cup on a table.

6 Mar 2017

Silicon-On-Insulator Wafer Ideal for Growing Gallium Nitride Crystals

Researchers at Aalto University collaborated with Okmetic Oy and the Polish ITME to study the application of Silicon On Insulator (SOI) wafers, which are used as a platform for producing a variety of microelectronics components, as a substrate for manufacturing gallium nitride crystals.

3 Mar 2017

Researchers Use Sawdust to Develop Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries

A team of researchers have used waste silicon (Si) sawdust to develop a high performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).

22 Feb 2017

Insights into History of Glass Relaxation Behavior Could Lead to High-Resolution Displays

In order to enhance the performance and resolution of next-generation displays, individual pixel sizes should be made smaller and the tolerance for glass relaxation has to be tightened.

22 Feb 2017

Liquid Metal 2D Printing Technique May Pave Way for Flexible Electronics

A new method using liquid metals to produce integrated circuits that are only atoms in thickness could pave the way for the next big advance in electronics.

20 Feb 2017

Soft Supercapacitors Created in Green Tea Extract Could Power Wearable Electronics

Wearable electronics are already in the market, with sports bands or watches being the most prominent types sold.

16 Feb 2017

Research on Ferroelectric Material Promotes Use of Multivalued Logic for Neuromorphic Computing

A study recently published in Nature Scientific Reports presents a theoretical map to use ferroelectric material in order to process information using multivalued logic.

13 Feb 2017

Material Paves Way Towards Multi-Energy Harvesting to Help Power Wearable Gadgets

Energy in many forms surrounds us â€“ from sunlight to the heat produced by our movements. All that energy is usually wasted, but it could potentially help in powering wearable and portable devices ranging from smart watches to biometric sensors.

8 Feb 2017

Berkeley Lab Researchers Provide Key Insights on Battery Cathode Particles

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have used advanced imaging techniques to observe what happens within a cathode particle while lithium-ion batteries are charged and discharged.

2 Feb 2017

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