Researchers at the University of Washington have created a material to make LED bulbs cheaper and greener to manufacture, driving down the price.
Two insulating perovskites conduct when together
Lanthanum aluminum oxide and strontium titanium oxide make conducting system when sandwiched together – Stanford researchers have investigated why.
Texas Instruments outline plans for Chengdu investment
Operational investment could total up to $1.69 billion over the next 15 years and potentially include facilities, manufacturing equipment and land.
Molybdenum disulfide making 2D electronics possible
Rice, Oak Ridge labs make semiconducting films for atom-thick circuits.
Investigating magnetism in iron-based superconductors
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered surprising changes in electrical resistivity in iron-based superconductors.
BASF announces acquisition of Deutsche Nanoschicht
BASF New Business GmbH has acquired all shares of the technology company Deutsche Nanoschicht GmbH.
Spin-Hall effect observation is a step towards "atomtronics"
Researchers at NIST have reported the first observation of the “spin Hall effect” in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Patent awarded for li-ion battery fire-suppression system
LithFire-X has been awarded patent protection for a system to contain and extinguish lithium ion battery fires in electric energy storage configurations.
Switchable Diffraction from Liquid Crystal–Carbon Nanotube Hybrids
Voltage-dependent diffraction switching makes a hybrid liquid crystal–carbon nanotube device a good candidate for high-resolution displays.
Stretchable, transparent graphene-metal nanowire electrode
A transparent and stretchable electrode could open the new way for flexible displays, solar cells, and electronic devices fitted on a curvature substrate.