Most modern semiconductors are fabricated of or on silicon (Si), but as devices get smaller and denser, they dissipate more ...

They say you should dress for the job you want; now you can wear clothes that do a job themselves. Scientists have created a ...

Superconductive materials can conduct electricity with no resistance, but typically only at very low temperatures. Realizing ...

Researchers at UNIST have unveiled a simple, yet effective method to replace the insulating coating—known as ...

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Geophysicists have made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The image ...

Gang Liu, Der-Jang Liaw, Wei-Yi Lee, Qi-Dan Ling, Chun-Xiang Zhu, D. Siu-Hung Chan, En-Tang Kang, Koon-Gee Neoh Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 367, ...

BERKELEY, CA – The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically – to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue researchers have created a transparent polymer film that also conducts electricity, introducing an inexpensive organic material for applications such as the screens of ...