PtBi2 work as contact layer in WS2 transistor. Credit: Prof. Shenghuang Lin from Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory Despite its promising characteristics in condensed matter physics, the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new type of transistor structure, invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has broken the 600 gigahertz speed barrier. The goal of a terahertz ...

New chipmaking systems boost the energy-efficient performance of Gate-All-Around transistors and wiring at 2nm and beyond Viva™ pure radical treatment smoothens GAA silicon nanosheets with ...

Promising 2D materials may face an unexpected obstacle at the atomic scale: a tiny gap at their interfaces. For decades, the ...

Scientists have found that a “superatomic” material is the fastest and most efficient semiconductor ever. Taking advantage of a tortoise-and-hare mechanism, the new material can transport energy much ...

2D materials are widely seen as a promising path toward better computer chips. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown that ...

The complexity problem The most direct explanation for why materials misbehave in production is also the most uncomfortable ...

Semiconductor materials play an important part in developing nanophotonic technologies. Semiconductors are used for generating controllable photons as well as for confining and exploiting them for ...