Month: October 2024

Oct 16, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) In the world of athletic performance and outdoor sports, the gear athletes wear can make or break their ability to perform. Sportswear is not just about comfort and style—it’s increasingly becoming a high-tech domain where clothing needs to protect, monitor health, and regulate temperature, all...

Oct 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Unwanted heating of electronic components hinders the performance of many devices. For example, the processing speed and memory available to silicon-based computer chips depend strongly on the ability to dissipate heat effectively. Unfortunately, despite high demand, thermal management remains challenging. Now, in a study published...

Oct 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Synthetic diamond is durable, inert, rigid, thermally conductive and chemically well-behaved – an elite material for both quantum and conventional electronics. But there’s one problem. Diamond only likes diamond. It’s homoepitaxial, meaning it only grows on other diamonds, and integrating diamond into quantum or conventional...

Oct 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A class of material called perovskites, which have special electronic bonding with many applications, could be useful for quantum sensing. Many scientists are studying different materials for their potential use in quantum technology. One important feature of the atoms in these materials is called spin....

Oct 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Metasurface technology is an advanced optical technology that is thinner, lighter, and capable of precisely controlling light through nanometer-sized artificial structures compared to conventional technologies. KAIST researchers have overcome the limitations of existing metasurface technologies and successfully designed a Janus metasurface capable of perfectly controlling...

Oct 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Active electronics — components that can control electrical signals — usually contain semiconductor devices that receive, store, and process information. These components, which must be made in a clean room, require advanced fabrication technology that is not widely available outside a few specialized manufacturing centers....

Oct 16, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Infrared imaging technology is crucial for advancing our understanding of the world, from exploring biological specimens to inspecting complex materials and detecting hidden patterns in physical systems. Infrared light can penetrate fog and smoke, making it invaluable for search and rescue, firefighting, and sensitive operations....

Oct 15, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The emergence of living materials that combine biological components with man-made structures is opening up new possibilities across fields as diverse as medicine, energy, and computing (see our previous Nanowerk Spotlight: "Engineering sustainable living materials for a greener future"). One particularly promising area is the...

Oct 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A recent breakthrough in photonics-based randomness manipulation has been achieved by a strong collaboration with Ernesto Galvão from INL and scientists from Milan’s Polytechnic and Sapienza University of Rome. The group’s findings were published in Nature Photonics ("Modular quantum-to-quantum Bernoulli factory in an integrated photonic...

Oct 15, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Halide perovskites is the collective name for a group of materials that are considered very promising and cost-effective for flexible and lightweight solar cells and various optical applications, such as LED lighting. This is because many of these materials absorb and emit light in an...