Reading Steve Leibson’s comment on the relatively recent use of crystals for electronics reference frequencies made me remember my lab partner at UC Irvine in the 70s, who was an amazing ham guy, ...

(Nanowerk News) One of the most striking properties of graphene is arguably its two-dimensionality. The remarkable electronic behavior realized by this two-dimensionality has prompted researchers to ...

The usage of fans and liquid cooling to keep our devices cool enough to operate may one day vanish, thanks to a crystal invented to replace these systems. According to researchers from the University ...

Parades dancing through the streets are common during celebrations like Mardi Gras. And now, it may become more common in electronics like your smart phone too, thanks to newly published research from ...

After five years of effort, chemists at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University have developed a new class of liquid crystals with an electric dipole that’s over twice that of existing liquid crystals ...

Giving us further hope for a future without silicon circuitry, researchers have shown that transparent, photoconductive crystals can become conductors in when exposed to light. So much so in fact, ...

Researchers polished single-crystal diamond to near-atomic smoothness without damaging it. This will improve the performance and sustainability of future electronics. Silicon has been the workhorse of ...

I always look at boring old USB drives and ask, “Why can’t these be jewel-encrusted?” Ditto for my run-of-the-mill earbuds, which seem to lack some kind of large embedded crystal. Believe it or not, ...

A method for growing organic semiconducting crystals onto a surface could lead to better flexible electronic devices and video displays, researchers claim. Transistors made from thin films of organic ...

Computer chips and storage elements are expected to function as quickly as possible and be energy-saving at the same time. Innovative spintronic modules are at an advantage here thanks to their high ...