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Researchers Create 'Few Atoms Thick' Semiconductors for Solar Cells and Circuits

During the past half-century, researchers have shaved silicon films down to merely a strand of atoms in the quest of smaller, faster electronics. For the next set of innovations, though, they will need unique ways to construct even tinier and more robust devices.

21 Sep 2017

NUS Researchers Gain New Insights into Potential Semiconductor Material

A team of Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have proven new findings on the properties of 2D molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), an extensively studied semiconductor of the future.

11 Sep 2017

Moderate Conduction Property Allows Semiconductors to Perform as Switches and Transistors in Electronics

Another reason why semiconductors seem to lose their potential to carry a charge as they become more densely “doped” has been uncovered by researchers examining the flow of electricity.

6 Sep 2017

Researchers Develop a Technique to Determine Bond Dissociation Energies for Transition Metal Silicides

Transition metal silicides, a distinctive group of semiconducting materials that contain silicon, exhibit excellent oxidation resistance, low corrosion rates, and high temperature stability, which make them a potential material for a range of future developments in electronic devices.

23 Aug 2017

New Hybrid Integrated Platform Promises to be a More Advanced Alternative to Conventional Integrated Circuits

A new hybrid integrated platform has been developed by physicists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS). This new platform has the potential to be a more advanced alternative to standard integrated circuits that are presently developed by the semiconductor industry.

27 Jul 2017

Bio-Inspired Dynamic Templates for Advancing Printable Electronics Technology

It is good to look at Mother Nature for inspiration especially when it comes to efficiency, even for advanced technology such as printable, flexible electronics.

18 Jul 2017

New Layer Transfer Technique Creates Many Thin Layers from a Single Gallium Nitride Wafer

For years, investigations were carried out on the impact brought about by a simple technique, for removing thin layers from otherwise rigid, thick semiconductor crystals, on the semiconductor industry.

12 Jul 2017

New Class of Tunable Soft Semiconductors Could Usher in New Generation of Optoelectronic Devices

Soon high-definition displays will function with a new type of semiconductor. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated that a class of semiconductor known as halide perovskites is capable of discharging multiple, bright colors from just one nanowire at resolutions as small as 500 nm.

27 Jun 2017

New Ultrafast Tunable Semiconductor Metamaterial Based on Gallium Arsenide Nanoparticles

Nature Communications has recently published a report on the development of an ultrafast tunable metamaterial, based on gallium arsenide nanoparticles, by an international team of Researchers from Moscow State University (Russia), Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque (USA) and Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (Germany).

18 May 2017

Scientists Discover Unique Properties of Strontium Niobate

Scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have recently unearthed distinctive characteristics of strontium niobate. Strontium niobate is a peculiar semiconductor that exhibits photocatalytic activity as well as metallic type conduction.

16 May 2017

Semiconductor News

Researchers Create 'Few Atoms Thick' Semiconductors for Solar Cells and Circuits

NUS Researchers Gain New Insights into Potential Semiconductor Material

Moderate Conduction Property Allows Semiconductors to Perform as Switches and Transistors in Electronics

Researchers Develop a Technique to Determine Bond Dissociation Energies for Transition Metal Silicides

New Hybrid Integrated Platform Promises to be a More Advanced Alternative to Conventional Integrated Circuits

Bio-Inspired Dynamic Templates for Advancing Printable Electronics Technology

New Layer Transfer Technique Creates Many Thin Layers from a Single Gallium Nitride Wafer

New Class of Tunable Soft Semiconductors Could Usher in New Generation of Optoelectronic Devices

New Ultrafast Tunable Semiconductor Metamaterial Based on Gallium Arsenide Nanoparticles

Scientists Discover Unique Properties of Strontium Niobate

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