The entire semiconductor industry, not to mention Silicon Valley, is built on the propensity of electrons in silicon to…

Scientists at the University of York have helped to uncover the properties of defects in the atomic structure of magneti…

MIT team provides theoretical roadmap to making 2-D electronics with novel properties.

Researchers at MIT say they have carried out a theoretical analysis showing that a family of two-dimensional materials e…

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to transfer thin semiconductor films, which ar…

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark and two Dutch universities have discovered a new material which is a…

Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a single tiny structure that includes all the components of a ba…

Researchers have developed what they call a simple, one-step method to grow nanowires of germanium from an aqueous solut…

Startup’s power-conserving chip may increase smartphone battery life, save energy in cell towers.

Stream video on your smartphone, or use its GPS for an hour or two, and you’ll probably see the battery drain significan…

Ferroelectric materials, commonly used in transit cards, gas grill igniters, video game memory and more, could become st…

Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology have reported the first experimental obser…

A dramatic increase in the amount of time data can be stored on a single atom means silicon could once again play a vita…

New self-assembly method for fabricating graphene nanoribbons brings scientists a step closer to revolutionizing electronics

Scientists from UCLA and Tohoku University have discovered a new self-assembly method for producing defect-free graphene…

Faster, smaller, greener computers, capable of processing information up to 1,000 times faster than currently available…

Novel oxide-based magnetism follows electrical commands

Electricity and magnetism rule our digital world. Semiconductors process electrical information, while magnetic material…

Researchers from the FOM Foundation and University of Groningen have found a way to preserve spin information for much l…

By observing how hydrogen is absorbed into individual palladium nanocubes, Stanford materials scientists have detailed a…

Looking for novel forms of superconductivity

Truly two-dimensional objects are rare. Even a thin piece of paper is trillions of atoms thick. When physicists do suc…

Technique enables research into safer, higher-capacity battery materials

Using a neutron beam, chemists and engineers at The Ohio State University were able to track the flow of lithium atoms i…

As smartphones get smarter and computers compute faster, researchers actively search for ways to speed up the processing…

Researchers at UCSB enable robots to see through solid walls with Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi makes all kinds of things possible. We can send and receive messages, make phone calls, browse the Internet, even…