Microarchitectured material that consists of small compliant unit cells that are independently controlled using piezo actuators, sensors, and microprocessors embedded within each cell.
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Black phosphorus unleashes the power of supercapacitors
Researchers in China build powerful and durable all-solid-state supercapacitors using black phosphorus nanoflakes.
LEDs for Visible-Light Communications
Enhanced recombination rate is achieved on a novel plasmonic platform that exploits the spontaneous formation of a V-pit-texture on the surface of a light-emitting diode.
Sensitive skin – paper-based multifunctional artificial skin
Using only off-the-shelf components, researchers in Saudi Arabia have designed and built an affordable and multifunctional artificial skin sensor based on recyclable materials including paper and aluminium foil.
Magnetoelectric Oxide Gates to Enable Graphene Spintronics
The ability to electrically control magnetism in a gate dielectric is demonstrated by physicists at North Carolina State University.
Towards More Efficient OLEDs; Enhancing the Emission Properties of Polymeric Semiconductors
New research asks how to manipulate the features of polymeric semiconductors to improve OLEDs and other display applications.
A better memory: improving ReRAM to challenge NAND
A potentially major breakthrough has been made in the study of ReRAM memory devices.
First transparent solar cells developed by physicists of Leipzig University
Prof. Marius Grundmann from Universität Leipzig and his PhD student Robert Karsthof, MSc, and further coworkers have presented the first such transparent solar cell in a recent article in physica status solidi (a).
Anisotropic interlayer coupling in atomically thin ReS2
Atomically thin transition-metal-dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently attracted a lot of research interest. Like graphene, they can be prepared as two-dimensional crystals by exfoliation. Unlike graphene, they are semiconductors with large band gaps, which make them...
Carbononics – a new special issue in pss RRL
A Carbononics special issue in pss RRL – integrating electronics, photonics and spintronics with graphene quantum dots.
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