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Overcoming Mobility-Stability Trade-Off in TFTs Could Pave the Way for New Display Technologies

Amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOS) are a promising option for the next generation of display technologies due to their low costs and high electron (charge carrier) mobility.

17 Dec 2021

Researchers Demonstrate a New Level of Stretchability of Photodetectors

Semiconductors are moving away from rigid substrates, which are cut or formed into thin discs or wafers, to more flexible plastic material and even paper thanks to new material and fabrication discoveries.

16 Dec 2021

Novel Photon Upconversion Systems with Heterojunctions of Bilayer Films of Organic Semiconductors

Photon upconversion (UC) is a process in which a material increases the energy of incident photons, resulting in the emission of photons with higher energies. The potential applications of UC include the recovery of wasted low-energy photons in photovoltaics and photocatalysis.

19 Nov 2021

New Production Process Results in Efficient Lasers and LEDs

A new process has resulted in layered materials that can upgrade the efficiency levels of lasers and LEDs.

26 Oct 2021

UV Radiometers for Semiconductor Photolithography

A mask aligner is a precision machine tool used in the semiconductor manufacturing process to transfer a pattern onto a wafer or substrate; these patterns are micro and nano in scale.

From Gigahertz-Optik Inc 25 Oct 2021

New MXene-GaN-MXene Based Multiple Quantum Well Photodetector Shows Improved Performance

The application of Internet of Things has sparked intense interest of photodetectors as they are widely used in sensing, detection, data transport and processing.

24 Sep 2021

Researchers Develop a THz Time-Domain Ellipsometry System for Wide-Gap Semiconductors

In semiconductor device applications, there is an increasing demand for semiconductors with very high carrier concentrations.

16 Sep 2021

KAUST Researchers Devise A Cooler Way to Make Solar Cells More Efficient

Bandgap engineering can improve the performance of optoelectronic devices that aim to harness the energy of "hot" electrons, research from KAUST shows.

8 Sep 2021

New Method for Efficient Conversion of Light from One Wavelength to Another

At the Samueli School of Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), electrical engineers have come up with a highly efficient method of converting light from one wavelength to another.

2 Aug 2021

Optical Chip Revolutionizes Data Rate for Processors and Technologies

As per data obtained from the United Nations’ telecommunications agency, 93% of the world’s population has access to a mobile-broadband network of some type. Since data has turned easily available to consumers, there is also a craving to get more of it with higher speeds.

23 Jul 2021