Cornell University researchers have taken a major step forward in photonics by developing a micrometer-scale silicon device that allows an electrical signal to modulate a beam of light. ITHACA, N.Y. - ...

Additive nanomanufacturing applies 3D printing at the nanoscale, enabling precise fabrication for electronics, energy, ...

As computer chips continue to get smaller and more complex, the ultrathin metallic wires that carry electrical signals within ...

Pasta tastes like pasta – with or without a spiral. But when you jump to the nanoscale, everything changes: carbon nanotubes and nanofibers that look like nanoscale spiral pasta have completely ...

PHILADELPHIA – The future of high-speed electronics might very well be defined by linking together small, "electrically jumpy" molecules called chromophores. According to researchers at the University ...

Visions for what we can do with future electronics depend on finding ways to go beyond the capabilities of silicon conductors. The experimental field of molecular electronics is thought to represent a ...

Researchers have invented a new way to fabricate nanoscale 3D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, semiconducting ...

"Our most recent results show how to grow nanowires in precisely the places you want them on silicon wafers. Nanowires offer many advantages over nanotubes, such as the ability to dope them in ...

A recent study published in Science by researchers at Stanford University demonstrated that niobium phosphide films, only a few atoms thick, can conduct electricity more efficiently than copper. A ...

Applications of this could be better solar cells, materials that behave like one-way valves for heat flow and heat-based computing platforms. The heat flow rate between two objects has a limit that ...

Engineers working in the nanoscale will have a new tool at their disposal thanks to an international group of researchers led by Drexel University's College of Engineering. This innovative procedure ...