Picosun Group, a leading supplier of advanced ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology for industrial production, reports excellent results in conformal ALD coatings for solid-state...
Mar 26, 2019
Tiny nanoclusters of metal atoms—such as gold and silver—have properties which mean they can be used as semiconductors, a joint Swansea-Hamburg research team has discovered.
Mar 26, 2019
Tiny nanoclusters of metal atoms -- such as gold and silver -- have properties which mean they can be used as semiconductors, a research team has discovered. The finding opens the door to a wide range of potential new applications, from phone disp...
Mar 26, 2019
Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. But there was a seismic shift in the history of computing during the second half of the 1970s. It wasn't just that machines became mu...
Mar 26, 2019
Chemical imaging of surfaces is critical to understand the relationships between structural, chemical and functional properties in disciplines ranging across the chemical, material and biological sciences. Conventional methods of chemical analysis...
Mar 26, 2019
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short noncoding regulatory RNAs that can repress gene expression post-transcriptionally and are therefore increasingly used as biomarkers of disease. Detecting miRNAs can be arduous and expensive as they require amplificatio...
Mar 26, 2019
Silver, gold and copper nanowires are leading contenders for next-generation nanoscale devices, however greater understanding of how they work and improved production methods are needed before they can be widely used, explains a recent review in t...
Mar 26, 2019
Molecular nanowires can be used for many applications, from LED lights to medical devices.
Mar 26, 2019
Tiny nanoclusters of metal atoms - such as gold and silver - have properties, which mean they can be used as semiconductors. The finding opens the door to a wide range of potential new applications, from phone displays and flatter screens to weara...
Mar 26, 2019
Nanowire gurus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, thanks to a special type of shell, produce five times higher light intensity than do comparable LEDs based on a s...
Mar 26, 2019
