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Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Releases New Application Note: “Characterizing Ferroelectric Response in Silicon-Doped Hafnium Oxide Thin Films”

Material science innovations are critical to the semiconductor industry’s efforts to make more powerful and more energy efficient processors and data storage devices. Hafnium oxide is one such material that has already been adopted in some new devices.

From Oxford Instruments 23 Apr 2020

Laser Technology to Use Extreme UV Light Sources to Make ICs

Although the use of extreme ultraviolet light sources to develop sophisticated integrated chips has been in the pipeline, their advancement has been hampered due to a lack of efficient laser targets.

16 Apr 2020

New Hybrid Material Could be a Potential Candidate for Optoelectronic Applications

A hybrid semiconductor material created in Dresden could be the answer to the growing demand for optoelectronic components.

10 Apr 2020

New Platform may Lead to the Development of Efficient Optical Computers

Research teams in nanophotonics are looking to create optical transistors, believed to be crucial components for optical computers.

10 Apr 2020

Light-Emitting Silicon that Redefines Computing

Scientists from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have successfully developed a silicon-based alloy that can produce light.

9 Apr 2020

Structures Based on 2D-Materials Emit Customized Light in Any Color

Identification of novel, light-emitting semiconductor materials is important to develop an array of electronic devices.

19 Feb 2020

New Method to Realize Photon Up-Conversion Using Nontoxic Materials

A group of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside has discovered a new technique to create a long-proposed phenomenon—the energy transfer between organic, carbon-based molecules and silicon.

3 Dec 2019

New Approach to Dynamically Manipulate the Optical Response of Semiconductors

Physicists from France, Germany, and Switzerland have discovered that the optical response of semiconductors can be dynamically controlled by large-amplitude acoustic waves. These waves are launched by ultrashort laser p...

2 Dec 2019