Micro-electro-mechanical devices (MEMS) are based on the integration of mechanical and electrical components on a micrometer scale. We all use them continuously in our everyday life: For example, in our mobile phones there are at least a dozen MEM...
Nov 9, 2021
The rumors of a Sony-TSMC chipmaking partnership were true. Nikkei reports Sony and TSMC are teaming up to build a semiconductor factory in Kumamoto, Japan that would tackle "strong global market demand" for specialized chips. That is, i...
Nov 9, 2021
A team of physicists and engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) successfully demonstrated the feasibility of low-cost and high-performance radio frequency modules for qubit controls at room temperature. They built a seri...
Nov 9, 2021
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of entities in China and one in the U.S. has developed a modified textile that can keep skin cooler than materials made of cotton. In their paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the grou...
Nov 9, 2021
UC Berkeley physicist Norman Yao first described five years ago how to make a time crystal—a new form of matter whose patterns repeat in time instead of space. Unlike crystals of emerald or ruby, however, those time crystals existed for only a fra...
Nov 9, 2021
A team including researchers from The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) has revealed that sonic boom and Doppler-shifted sound waves can be created in a graphene transistor, giving new insights into this advanced materia...
Nov 9, 2021
A new imaging technique developed by the teams of Professors Jinyang Liang and Fiorenzo Vetrone at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) can quickly measure temperature in 2D without contact. The results of their research were ...
Nov 9, 2021
A new imaging technique can measure temperature in 2D, without contact, and in just a snap.
Nov 9, 2021
Investigators have demonstrated temperature-sensitive regulation of actomyosin, a critical protein complex involved in neuronal development. By applying optically controlled heating, the team demonstrated that the protein drebrin E acts as a switc...
Nov 9, 2021
Global drinking water scarcity is a severe problem for humans. Water purification consumes a large amount of fossil energy and generates secondary pollution.
Nov 9, 2021
