Semiconductors
- US Department of Commerce announces CHIPS act preliminary agreement with GlobalFoundries, which will award approximately $1.5 billion to expand domestic production of semiconductors
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- Unraveling the crucial role of trace oxygen in organic semiconductors - Nature Communicationswww.nature.com Unraveling the crucial role of trace oxygen in organic semiconductors - Nature Communications
Conventional deoxygenation methods typically result in inevitable trace oxygen residue in organic semiconductors. Here, Huang et al. reports a non-destructive soft-plasma treatment for deoxygenation and that removal of trace oxygen can be used to modulate p-type characteristics.
- New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material | Quanta Magazinewww.quantamagazine.org New Kind of Magnetism Spotted in an Engineered Material | Quanta Magazine
In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.
- Researchers Create First Functional Semiconductor Made From Graphene | Researchresearch.gatech.edu Researchers Create First Functional Semiconductor Made From Graphene | Research
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known. Semiconductors, which are materials that conduct electricity under specific conditions, are founda...
- New Device Leads to “Dendrocentric Learning”spectrum.ieee.org New Device Leads to “Dendrocentric Learning”
Stanford researchers mimic brain structure with ferroelectric material
- First 2D semiconductor with 1000 transistors developed at EPFL Switzerland: Redefining energy efficiency in data processingwww.eurekalert.org First 2D semiconductor with 1000 transistors developed at EPFL Switzerland: Redefining energy efficiency in data processing
As information and communication technologies (ICT) process data, they convert electricity into heat. Already today, the global ICT ecosystem’s CO2 footprint rivals that of aviation. It turns out, however, that a big part of the energy consumed by computer processors doesn’t go into...
