Quantum entanglement has shifted from a philosophical puzzle to a design brief for engineers working at the scale of atoms, ...

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 ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Nanoelectronics – in which semiconductor components’ critical features such as logic transistors and memory measure well under 100 nm – is a new and rapidly growing field. Potential applications in ...

What is a Single-Electron Transistor? A single-electron transistor (SET) is a nanoscale electronic device that allows the precise control of individual electrons. Unlike conventional transistors that ...

A capacitor is a passive electronic component that stores electrical energy in an electric field. It consists of two conducting plates separated by an insulating material called a dielectric. When a ...

Advanced semiconductor devices are making it more difficult to validate and qualify devices as they migrate toward smaller sizes and ever-lower signal levels, especially difficult with devices built ...

A technical paper titled “Quantified Uniformity and Selectivity of TiO 2 Films in 45-nm Half Pitch Patterns Using Area-Selective Deposition Supercycles” was published by researchers at IMEC, North ...

Researchers have demonstrated that by using a semiconductor with flexible bonds, the material can be moulded into various structures using nano containers, without altering its composition, the ...