Semiconductors

Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a crystal made entirely of electrons. The structures have been theorized for decades, but this marks the first time they’ve been experimentally confirmed in the lab.

Normally if you push something, it moves away from you, but theoretically objects with negative mass would move towards you instead. Scientists from the University of Rochester have now developed a device that can create particles that exhibit negative mass.

A research team at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has successfully used a laser to optically-cool the compound Cadmium Sulfide.

A significant step on the path to quantum computing has been taken by an international team of researchers who have succeeded in creating quantum bits within a semiconductor for the very first time.

Solar cells could become more efficient and less expensive, thanks to the development of tapered nanopillar semiconductors that are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.

Researchers are looking into ways of harvesting the solar heat that is stored in asphalt roads.

Engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, have created a pressure-sensitive electronic artificial skin from semiconductor nanowires.

Researchers have devised a method of coating various surfaces with monolayers of gold nanoparticles, in just ten minutes.

Scientists from the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona have found a way to implant minute silicon chips into living cells and use them as intracellular sensors.