Home > Press > UVA Engineering researchers join quest to demonstrate photonic systems-on-chip: Future applications include faster, more efficient data centers and next-generation millimeter-wave wireless communicationAbstract:The World Economic Forum has dubbed the digital era the fourth industrial revolution. The microchip is the new steam engine. Electric current replaces mechanical motion,...
New types of 2D material defects could enable better electronics
Aug 02, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Two-dimensional materials are essential for developing new ultra-compact electronic devices, but producing defect-free 2D materials is a challenge. However, discovery of new types of defects in these 2D materials may give insight into how to create materials without such imperfections, according to a group of...
Nanotechnology Now – Press Release: Scientists release new AI-based tools to accelerate functional electronic materials discovery: The work could allow scientists to accelerate the discovery of materials showing a metal-insulator transition
Home > Press > Scientists release new AI-based tools to accelerate functional electronic materials discovery: The work could allow scientists to accelerate the discovery of materials showing a metal-insulator transitionUsing machine-learning tools, the scientists identified important features to characterize materials that exhibit a metal-insulator transition. CREDIT Northwestern University and...
Pulsed lasers in liquids speed up the hunt for effective catalysts
Aug 02, 2021 (Nanowerk News) Chemical catalysts are the change agents behind the production of just about everything we use in our daily lives, from plastics to prescription drugs. When the right catalysts are mixed with the right chemical compounds, molecules that would otherwise take years to interact do so...