Semiconductors

New nano-lightbulb turns heat into light

Materials Today: What may be viewed as the world’s smallest incandescent lightbulb is shining in an engineering laboratory at Rice University, offering the promise of advances in sensing, photonics and perhaps computing platforms beyond the limits of silicon. Gururaj Naik of…

Halide perovskites are troubled by dislocations

Materials Today: A promising semiconductor material could be improved if flaws previously thought irrelevant to its performance are reduced, according to a paper in Nature Communications. A group of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and other universities has shown that a…

Artificial Skin to Improve Sense of Touch, Help Study Neural Activity

Medgadget: At the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, researchers have created an interesting artificial “skin” that can sense touch while providing real-time haptic feedback in the form of vibrations. Because the sensors and actuators are completely embedded…

AI Chip Market to More than Double in 5 Years

EE Times: The opportunity for AI accelerator chips is much-hyped, but how big is the market, and which companies are actually selling chips today? Two new reports from ABI Research detail the state of play for today’s AI chipset market. EETimes…