Researchers developed a room-temperature, maskless electrodeposition method for directly 3D-printing freestanding copper microinductors onto chip contact pads, enabling inductance to be generated without requiring additional dedicated planar silicon area. The printed microsolenoids achieved nanohenry-range inductance, quality factors up to 18, and experimentally validated inductive behavior up to 15 GHz, supporting their potential for post-fabrication integration into future RF electronics.
A signal that appears to show ions moving inside a battery may, in fact, be an illusion caused by an uneven surface. A KAIST research team has identified the origin of this type of artifacts, which can lead researchers to misinterpret what is happening inside a battery, and has developed a method to reduce it. The findings are expected to enable more accurate analysis of ion movement and improve the reliability of next-generation battery-material development, including that of solid-state and sodium-ion batteries.
Bruker today announced the launch of the XFlash® 7200 FIRE, the world’s first inclined large-area Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) detector for Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) built on Bruker’s revolutionary four-segment Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) architecture.
Bruker today announced the launch of two groundbreaking detectors at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) 2026: the eWARP™ TKD, a next-generation Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (TKD) detector for nanoscale crystallographic characterization, and the XFlash® FlatQUAD™ 2L, the latest evolution of Bruker’s annular EDS detector, enabling simultaneous Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS) and Back-Scattered Electron (BSE) detection.
Researchers developed a liquid metal-semiconductor valve that regulates current direction while remaining functional in flexible circuits stretched to approximately 1000% strain. The system also supports tunable switching, reconfigurable OR and AND logic, and wireless-energy-assisted logic operation under extreme deformation, providing a new approach to adaptive soft electronics.
Researchers used atomic-resolution imaging and simulations to show how twist angle alters halide-ion migration across CsPbBr3–CsPbCl3 perovskite heterostructures by changing the formation of interfacial diffusion channels. A 28° twist delayed interdiffusion, reduced the diffusion-channel ratio by more than 60%, and improved photodetector stability under accelerated thermal testing.
Researchers developed a multi-phase machine-learning framework to rapidly predict electronic band gaps and screen oxide perovskites for potential photovoltaic applications. Starting from more than half a million candidate structures, the approach progressively narrowed the search to a small group of band-gap-compatible compositions that now require higher-level computational and experimental validation.
Flexible NIR and SWIR image sensors combine infrared spectral sensing with conformability, offering new possibilities for wearable healthcare, agriculture, inspection, security, robotics, and human-computer interaction. The review highlights advances in organic semiconductors, quantum dots, perovskites, 2D materials, device architectures, and computational imaging while identifying stability, readout integration, and standardized performance measurement as key barriers to practical deployment.
Researchers proposed Quantum Phononic Links that confine acoustic phonons within strained germanium quantum wells to connect spatially separated hole spin qubits. Simulations and theoretical estimates suggest that the CMOS-compatible architecture could provide frequency-selective coupling over long on-chip distances, though experiments must verify its performance.
As semiconductor devices continue to become smaller and more complex, accurate thin-film metrology plays an increasingly important role in wafer process development and advanced device manufacturing.
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