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Method Enables Efficient Generation of Coherent Vibrations

Lasing can be defined as the emission of a collimated beam of light that has a well-defined wavelength (color) as well as phase.

14 Sep 2020

New 2D Materials-Based Technique to Engineer Optoelectronic Devices

A new method has been identified by scientists to engineer optoelectronic devices. This involves extending a two-dimensional (2D) material on top of a silicon photonic platform.

23 Jun 2020

Optimal Nanostructure can Reduce Thermal Conductivity of Semiconductor Materials

Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al. from The University of Tokyo aimed to reduce the thermal conductivity of semiconductor materials by reducing the internal nanostructure, and successfully minimized thermal conductivity by designing, fabricating, and evaluating the optimal nanostructure-multilayer materials through materials informatics (MI), which combines machine learning and molecular simulation.

17 Jun 2020

New Inkjet-Printed LEDs Made of Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductor Material

For the first time, researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin have successfully used a hybrid perovskite semiconductor material to produce light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with the help of inkjet printing.

15 Jun 2020

New Reaction System to Produce Semiconductor Materials

Organic solar cells have a variety of applications in the field of electronics, especially in the development of novel electronic devices like wearable devices.

9 Jun 2020

Optical Gain from Excitonic Complexes Could Power Future Lasers, Amplifiers

In his latest line of research, Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and his peers explored the intricate balance of physics that governs how electrons, holes, excitons and trions coexist and mutually convert into each other to produce optical gain.

7 May 2020

Creating Tin Dioxide Semiconductors with High Mobility

Mobility is a key parameter for semiconductor performance and relates to how quickly and easily electrons can move inside a substance.

23 Apr 2020

Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Releases New Application Note: “Characterizing Ferroelectric Response in Silicon-Doped Hafnium Oxide Thin Films”

Material science innovations are critical to the semiconductor industry’s efforts to make more powerful and more energy efficient processors and data storage devices. Hafnium oxide is one such material that has already been adopted in some new devices.

From Oxford Instruments 23 Apr 2020

Laser Technology to Use Extreme UV Light Sources to Make ICs

Although the use of extreme ultraviolet light sources to develop sophisticated integrated chips has been in the pipeline, their advancement has been hampered due to a lack of efficient laser targets.

16 Apr 2020