Unusual materials and design strategies enable NFC technology to be embedded into electronic systems that are ultrathin, soft and stretchable, like skin.
Electronics
Flexible and printable magneto-electronics
A German research team have fabricated magneto-electronics that fulfill the performance and processing requirements for consumer electronics.
Polymer-based flexible bioelectronics
Researchers have created a low-cost, flexible bioelectronic device based on PEDOT:PSS, which they used for monitoring action potentials from cell tissues.
Moving towards quantum computers
Joris van Slageren´s research group discovers molecular quantum bit with exceptionally long coherence time over an unusually wide temperature range.
Forming perovskite films with ALD from a seed layer
Researchers have formed perovskite films from a seed layer grown with atomic layer deposition, an standard technology for dielectric materials.
Superconductivity in layered iron germanide
Yang Zou and co-workers have found evidence for superconductivity in YFe2Ge2 with an unusual power-law temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity.
Etching doped silicon to produce perfect plasmonic absorbers
Cheng, et al. have created a broadband perfect absorber for terahertz waves by etching doped silicon to form micro-scale resonant cavities.
Two-dimensional materials: electronic structure and many-body effects
Special issue, guest-edited by F. Guinea, M. I. Katsnelson, and T. O. Wehling, is focused on electronic structure and other properties of 2D materials.
Random nanostructures make better flexible electronics
Nanostructuring improves optical confinement and limited light out-coupling efficiency from by the mismatched refractive indices of media in devices.
Studying the deposition of sexithiophene on fullerene
Prof. Zannoni and co-workers publish research on the deposition of sexithiophene on a fullerene substrate.
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