CAMBRIDGE, MA – Silicon transistors, which are used to amplify and switch signals, are a critical component in most electronic devices, from smartphones to automobiles. But silicon semiconductor ...

Control of heat flow is crucial for thermal logic devices and thermal management, with theoretical exploration preceding limited experimental progress in actively controlling heat flow. The device ...

From computers to smartphones, from smart appliances to the internet itself, the technology we use every day only exists ...

Nanofluidic transistors, also known as nanofluidic systems or nanofluidic devices, are innovative tools that control the flow of fluids, such as water or ions, through nanoscale channels using ...

A new technical paper titled “Quantum interference enhances the performance of single-molecule transistors” was published by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford, ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled an ultra-fast light switch made of very thin semiconductor ...

One of the topics we've covered multiple times at ExtremeTech is the difficulty of continuing to scale semiconductor technology, and the related problem of improving chip performance without ...

< Moritz Gittinger (left) and Daniel Timmer stand in front of the experiment that the study is based o ... Copyright: ...

A remarkable proof-of-concept project has successfully manufactured nanoscale diodes and transistors using a fast, cheap new production technique in which liquid metal is directed to self-assemble ...

An international research team has demonstrated experimentally that electrons in naturally occurring double-layer graphene move like particles without any mass, in the same way that light travels.