Electronics

Smart textiles and surfaces: How lightweight elastomer films are bringing tech to life
A research team led by Professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki from Saarland University is... Read more
A lighter, smarter magnetoreceptive electronic skin
Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone underwater: This and... Read more
China chip insiders eye stronger global ties despite trade tensions
Industry insiders at a semiconductor trade fair in Shanghai urged more cooperation between the Chinese... Read more
Shape-shifting OLED panel: Dynamic smartphone display with integrated speaker technology unveiled
A research team has developed the world's first smartphone-type OLED panel that can freely transform... Read more
Harnessing nature's fractals for flexible electronics: Biomimetic fabrication technique uses leaf skeletons as templates
By using leaf skeletons as templates, researchers harnessed nature's intrinsic hierarchical fractal structures to improve... Read more
Artificial nerve with organic transistor design shows promise for brain-machine interfaces
In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate... Read more
Using perovskite to make LED pixels as small as a virus
A team of physicists, engineers, opticians and photonics specialists at Zhejiang University, in China, working... Read more
Novel memristors to overcome AI's 'catastrophic forgetting'
So-called "memristors" consume extremely little power and behave similarly to brain cells. Researchers from Jülich,... Read more
Electromechanical building blocks enable rapid prototyping of large interactive structures
Prototyping large structures with integrated electronics, like a chair that can monitor someone's sitting posture,... Read more
Heat-based stabilization of a conductive polymer simplifies bioelectronics fabrication
Recent advances in the field of materials science have opened new possibilities for the fabrication... Read more
Multifunctional solar cells: Ferroelectric domain manipulation enhances electric output in perovskite crystals
A team of researchers has made an advancement in the field of multifunctional energy harvesting.... Read more
A tiny component for record-breaking bandwidth: New modulator breaks the terahertz mark
Plasmonic modulators are tiny components that convert electrical signals into optical signals in order to... Read more
Intel hires former board member as new CEO in struggling chipmaker's latest comeback attempt
Struggling chipmaker Intel has hired former board member and semiconductor industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as... Read more
Ultra-broadband photonic chip boosts optical signals to reshape high-speed data transmission
Modern communication networks rely on optical signals to transfer vast amounts of data. But just... Read more
High-performance programmable photonic chip could transform radar and communication systems
Researchers at the University of Twente, in collaboration with the City University of Hong Kong,... Read more