A Korean team of scientists tune BP’s band gap to form a superior conductor, allowing for the application to be mass produced for electronic and optoelectronics devices The research team ope... Read more
A team of Carnegie scientists led by Timothy Strobel has synthesized an entirely new form of silicon, one that promises even greater future applications. Silicon is the second most-abundant... Read more
Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter,... Read more
That they have the potential to produce cheaper electricity than coal-fired generators can SUNLIGHT is free, but that is no reason to waste it. Yet even the best silicon solar cells—by far t... Read more
Copper’s days are numbered Copper’s days are numbered, and a new study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could hasten the downfall of the ubiquitous metal in smart phones, tabl... Read more
This route holds great promise for replacing silicon with graphene in the microchip industry. An accidental discovery in a physicist’s laboratory at the University of California, River... Read more