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Atomic-scale 'primer coat' prevents leakage in next-gen transistors
16+ hour, 46+ min ago (487+ words) A few atoms of aluminum oxide could solve a key trade-off holding back next-generation 2D semiconductor technology. Taiwanese researchers have developed a new atomically thin “primer coat” for molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) that lets you put an extremely thin gate insulator on top…...
CoSi Semimetal Wires Beat Copper by Getting Better as They Shrink
12+ hour, 50+ min ago (652+ words) For half a century, the relentless shrinking of computer chips has been governed by a simple rule: make everything smaller, faster and more efficient. Yet one component has quietly become a bottleneck that threatens the entire trajectory of modern electronics....
Twisting Crystal Layers Makes Brittle Semiconductors Stretch Like Metals
21+ hour, 11+ min ago (803+ words) In a discovery that could reshape how engineers design flexible electronics and durable semiconductor devices, researchers in China have shown that deliberately twisting the atomic layers of bulk van der Waals crystals can make them dramatically more stretchable at room…...
Laser Method Puts Optical Isolators Directly On Silicon Chips
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (186+ words) How do you add an optical isolator to a silicon photonics chip without exposing the entire chip to high temperatures? A laser-based process could solve it. Laser Method Puts Optical Isolators Directly On Silicon Chips The researchers addressed this by…...
Laser-made optical isolator cuts reflected light 95% on silicon chips
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (236+ words) A new optical chip technology from Kyocera and Tohoku University could help solve a growing problem in high-speed data centers by cutting back-reflected light by about 95 percent. That matters because optical isolators prevent light from traveling back toward the laser…...
Reactive phase-transformed contacts preserve fragile interfaces in 2D transistors
3+ day ago (129+ words) The reactive phase-transformed contact strategy protects two-dimensional semiconductor surfaces during metal deposition. A low-energy tellurium buffer layer is first deposited to shield the fragile semiconductor lattice from energetic palladium atoms. A subsequent low-temperature annealing process converts the tellurium/palladium stack…...
Mitigating fermi-level pinning in 2D transistors via reactive phase-transformed contacts
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (742+ words) Two-dimensional semiconductors could enable highly scaled, low-power electronic devices, but their performance is often limited by damaged metal–semiconductor interfaces and severe Fermi-level pinning. Researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a reactive phase-transformed contact strategy that protects the…...
Organic Photodiode Brings 3.6 Gbps To Li-Fi Links
3+ day, 35+ min ago (23+ words) A single organic photodiode carries 3.6 gigabits per second over a one-metre light link, more than twenty times the previous organic Li-Fi record....
3D-Printed Copper Inductors Free Up Valuable Chip Space for RF Electronics
3+ day, 53+ min ago (295+ words) By building microscopic copper coils vertically above chip contact pads, researchers tested whether RF inductors can escape the planar space constraints that have long complicated circuit miniaturization. Paper: On-chip 3D printing of metal microinductors for radio frequency electronics A recent study…...
Specially designed microfluidic chips on a silicon wafer
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (37+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Specially designed microfluidic chips on a silicon wafer. © Saren Tasciyan / ISTA For use with this release. More on this News Release Tumor cells: Disorder can promote spread...