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Diamond-Based Circuits Can Take the Heat for Advanced Applications

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2018 — When power generators like windmills and solar panels transfer electricity to homes, businesses and the power grid, they lose almost 10 […]

A Paperlike LCD — Thin, Flexible, Tough and Cheap

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 28, 2018 — Optoelectronic engineers in China and Hong Kong have manufactured a special type of liquid crystal display (LCD) that is paper-thin, flexible, […]

Designing Diamonds for Medical Imaging Technologies

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19, 2018 — Japanese researchers have optimized the design of laboratory-grown, synthetic diamonds. This brings the new technology one step closer to enhancing biosensing […]

Three’s Company: New Alloy Sets Magnetism Benchmark

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 13, 2018 — The burgeoning field of spintronics leverages electron spins — as opposed to their charge — to enhance solid-state devices like hard […]

A New Radiation Detector Made from Graphene

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2018 — Graphene is a remarkable material: light, strong, transparent and electrically conductive. It can also convert heat to electricity. Researchers have recently […]

The Dawn of Gallium Oxide Microelectronics

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2018– Silicon has long been the go-to material in the world of microelectronics and semiconductor technology. But silicon still faces limitations, particularly with […]

Diamonds Show Promise for Spintronic Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 29, 2018 — Conventional electronics rely on controlling electric charge. Recently, researchers have been exploring the potential for a new technology, called spintronics, that […]

Advances in Lasers Get to the Long and Short of it

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2018 — Since lasers were first developed, the demand for more adaptable lasers has only increased. Chiral nematic liquid crystals (CLCs) are an […]

Acoustic Device Makes Piezoelectrics Sing to a Different Tune

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2017 — In today’s “internet of things,” devices connect primarily over short ranges at high speeds, an environment in which surface acoustic wave […]