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Scientists Discover “Shape-Shifting” Semiconductors Activated by Light

Researchers have discovered that perovskite crystals can rapidly and reversibly change shape when exposed to light, revealing a unique behavior not seen in traditional semiconducto...

Semiconductor Defect Detection Advancement

Researchers have developed a physics-based technique that accurately measures atomic-scale semiconductor defects, helping improve power electronics used in electric vehicles, renew...

A new heat transport regime discovered in 2D semiconductors

Ultrathin 2D semiconductors show strongly impeded thermal diffusion at room temperature, opening new routes for device heat management.

Symmetric Perovskites Improve Energy Transport

Rice researchers develop near-perfect 2D perovskite crystals enabling record energy transport, boosting performance for solar cells and optoelectronics while overcoming structural...

Electron crystals melt like solids, opening doors to neuromorphic computing

Charge density waves in metals accumulate defects and melt much like physical solids, a behavior that could be harnessed for neuromorphic devices and superconductors.

Multiferroic Material Can Enable Low-Energy Computing

A redesigned crystal structure unlocks rare magnetic and electric behaviour, hinting at alternative computing approaches beyond traditional silicon-based energy limitations.  Resea...

Focused light raises 2D semiconductor current up to 63-fold

Researchers developed a microlens based optical doping method called LAMP that raises 2D semiconductor transistor on-current by up to 63 times.

SiC Chips Could Make EVs More Efficient

Silicon carbide chips promise performance, energy loss reduction, and electric vehicle range, with production scaling as demand for EV technology rises. Bosch has started shipping...

High-Tech Crystal Learns to Waste Less Power

Inside a thin film of strontium iridate, barely 27 nanometres thick, electrons do something that most metals cannot. They remember which way they’re spinning. Not in any mystical s...

A silicon-compatible path toward scalable quantum systems

Researchers built superconducting quantum devices using a new material and a technique adapted from electronics manufacturing processes.

The hidden gap that could derail the future of 2D semiconductor chips

Researchers discover an atomic-scale gap between 2D materials and insulators that limits chip miniaturization and identify 'zipper materials' as the fix.

India gets new high-efficiency power chips

Power devices for charging, AI servers, telecom networks, and EV systems have been launched with a focus on lower energy loss and smaller electronics. Cyient Semiconductors has int...

SiC-on-Insulator Film Market: Advancements in Semiconductor Materials

The SiC-on-Insulator (SiCOI) film market is rapidly emerging as a key segment in advanced semiconductor materials. Valued at around $31.0 million in 2024, the market is projected t...

Chiral semiconductors can now absorb visible light thanks to a molecular trick

A dopant molecule accepts electrons from a chiral perovskite host, enabling visible light absorption while preserving the material's left or right-handedness.

Fungus Inspired Semiconductors For Flexible Electronics

Could pigments from fungi redefine electronics? Scientists are uncovering organic materials that enable flexible, light-responsive devices with unusual electronic behaviours. Resea...

New Model Explains How Single Electrons Cause Damage Inside Silicon Chips

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Researchers in the UC Santa Barbara Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism by which energetic electrons break chemical bond...

Halbleiter: Deutschlands überraschendstes Chipprojekt geht in die heiße Phase

Das Start-up Black Semiconductor hat mit dem Bau einer eigenen Fabrik in Aachen begonnen. So etwas haben hierzulande bislang nur Konzerne gewagt. Was Black Semiconductor anders mac...

Scientists Overcome Longstanding Challenge in Measuring Semiconductor Defects

In a groundbreaking advancement set to revolutionize the semiconductor industry, researchers from Sandia National Laboratories in collaboration with Auburn University have unveiled...

AI Accelerates Gallium Chip Discovery

Researchers developed an AI-driven materials engine that rapidly identifies new gallium semiconductor candidates, potentially reducing years of chip-material testing and accelerati...

Solar Cell Byproduct Could Beam Data Through Chips at the Speed of Light

There’s a mineral called bustamentite that almost nobody studies. It forms in flat hexagonal plates, grows readily in warm water, and turns up as an unwanted contaminant in perovsk...

Visible light replaces metal catalysts in new method for making porous semiconducting polymers

Researchers developed a visible-light-driven method using bismuthene as a photocatalyst to produce porous semiconducting polymers without metal catalysts under ambient conditions.

New process enables fabrication of transistors from perovskite

A new approach controls low-cost solution processing of perovskites, improving the order of their thin layers for use in solar cells, LEDs and transistors.

Semiconductors Winners And Losers At The Start Of Q2 2026

'Designer' superconducting diamond: researchers uncover path to multi-modality quantum chips

Discovering the physical principles of superconductivity in diamond opens the door for scientists to use it in new quantum technologies.