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Slightly Twisted 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Display Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity

A team of researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute (NGI) and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has demonstrated that slightly twisted 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) display room-temperature ferroelectricity.

4 Mar 2022

Powerful Tool Reveals Surprising Semiconductor Properties

A research team probing the properties of a semiconductor combined with a novel thin oxide film have observed a surprising new source of conductivity from oxygen atoms trapped inside.

2 Mar 2022

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Announces $300,000 in Funding from U.S. Department of Energy for Ultrafast Scintillation Detectors

SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) announced today that Professor of Nanoscience Dr. Serge Oktyabrsky has received $300,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to further develop state-of-the-art scintillating detectors, which, upon the detection of fast, charged particles, or X-ray photons, emit measurable light, resulting in the fastest high-yield scintillating materials reported so far.

2 Feb 2022

Research Could Open Up a New Route for the Realization of High-Mobility Organic Optoelectronics

Semiconductor electronic devices can be made of either inorganic crystals, formed by the strong bonding of atoms and ions, or organic crystals, which demonstrate weaker bonds held together by van der Waals forces (weak electric forces of attraction between neutral atoms or molecules that do not share a chemical bond).

17 Jan 2022

Overcoming Mobility-Stability Trade-Off in TFTs Could Pave the Way for New Display Technologies

Amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOS) are a promising option for the next generation of display technologies due to their low costs and high electron (charge carrier) mobility.

17 Dec 2021

Researchers Demonstrate a New Level of Stretchability of Photodetectors

Semiconductors are moving away from rigid substrates, which are cut or formed into thin discs or wafers, to more flexible plastic material and even paper thanks to new material and fabrication discoveries.

16 Dec 2021

Novel Photon Upconversion Systems with Heterojunctions of Bilayer Films of Organic Semiconductors

Photon upconversion (UC) is a process in which a material increases the energy of incident photons, resulting in the emission of photons with higher energies. The potential applications of UC include the recovery of wasted low-energy photons in photovoltaics and photocatalysis.

19 Nov 2021