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Miniaturized Spectral Sensing: Making Laboratory Capabilities Affordable

Are you unsatisfied with the color reproduction of your smartphone camera? Would you like your phone or other household appliance to detect different materials or even assess the freshness of food?

2 Mar 2023

Harnessing Self-Chaotic Microcavity Lasers for Fast Number Generation

The development of cryptographic keys for traditional and quantum cryptography systems, the dependability of today’s modern networked society, stochastic simulation, etc. depend on random numbers.

29 Aug 2022

Novel Imaging Approach to Examine and Measure Critical Dimensions of Semiconductor Devices

Semiconductor fabrication technology, used commonly in modern electronics, has been steadily advancing for decades. Today, semiconductor devices have shrunk to miniature sizes but are capable of performing unprecedented complex functions.

22 Apr 2022

Research Develops Ultrawide Bandgap Photodetectors in Real-World Applications

Several technologies and detectors detect and categorize deep UV frequencies that would otherwise be absorbed by the Earth’s ozone layer.

20 Apr 2022

Waters Introduces Xevo TQ Absolute – The Most Sensitive and Compact Benchtop Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer

Waters Corporation today introduced the new Xevo™ TQ Absolute system, the most sensitive and compact benchtop tandem mass spec in its class.

From Waters Corporation 1 Apr 2022

Researchers Explore the Speed Limit of Optoelectronics

How fast can electronics be? When computer chips work with ever shorter signals and time intervals, at some point they come up against physical limits.

28 Mar 2022

Slightly Twisted 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Display Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity

A team of researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute (NGI) and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has demonstrated that slightly twisted 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) display room-temperature ferroelectricity.

4 Mar 2022

Powerful Tool Reveals Surprising Semiconductor Properties

A research team probing the properties of a semiconductor combined with a novel thin oxide film have observed a surprising new source of conductivity from oxygen atoms trapped inside.

2 Mar 2022

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Announces $300,000 in Funding from U.S. Department of Energy for Ultrafast Scintillation Detectors

SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) announced today that Professor of Nanoscience Dr. Serge Oktyabrsky has received $300,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to further develop state-of-the-art scintillating detectors, which, upon the detection of fast, charged particles, or X-ray photons, emit measurable light, resulting in the fastest high-yield scintillating materials reported so far.

2 Feb 2022

Research Could Open Up a New Route for the Realization of High-Mobility Organic Optoelectronics

Semiconductor electronic devices can be made of either inorganic crystals, formed by the strong bonding of atoms and ions, or organic crystals, which demonstrate weaker bonds held together by van der Waals forces (weak electric forces of attraction between neutral atoms or molecules that do not share a chemical bond).

17 Jan 2022