A new era for accurate, rapid COVID-19 testing

Oct 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A rapid, accurate way of testing for COVID-19 infection would be a big step in overcoming the virus’ hold over our society. Now, in an article published in Lab on a Chip ("High-Precision Rapid Testing of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Clinical Samples Using AI-Nanopore"), Japanese...

AI-ready architecture doubles power with FeFETs

Oct 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Hussam Amrouch has developed an AI-ready architecture that is twice as powerful as comparable in-memory computing approaches. As reported in the journal Nature Communications ("First demonstration of in-memory computing crossbar using multi-level Cell FeFET"), the professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) applies a...

Using sound to test devices, control qubits

Oct 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Acoustic resonators are everywhere. In fact, there is a good chance you’re holding one in your hand right now. Most smart phones today use bulk acoustic resonators as radio frequency filters to filter out noise that could degrade a signal. These filters are also used...

New method enables reliable low-power triboelectric sensors for wearables

Oct 26, 2023 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Triboelectric sensors operate through contact electrification—the electrical charge transfer that occurs when two materials are brought into contact and then separated. This phenomenon allows triboelectric sensors to convert mechanical stimuli like touch or pressure into electrical signals. In this way, they can detect tactile inputs...

Multimodal graphene-based e-textiles

Oct 26, 2023 (Nanowerk News) For the first time ever, a joint research team from the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering (KAIST) has developed customized electronic textiles using graphene. The groundbreaking technology was led by Principal Researcher Soongeun Kwon...