Cutting-edge wearable tech has 1200 tiny solar panels that can charge a phone

Published: October 21, 2022

Researchers at Nottingham Trent University, U.K., have invented textiles embedded with more than a thousand miniature solar cells that can charge a smart watch or mobile phone.

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DARPA Innovation Fellowship

Published: September 15, 2022

DARPA, Arlington, Va., is accepting applications for its Innovation Fellowship, a two-year position for early career scientists and engineers.

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Oxford Instruments validates contactless SiC plasma epi-prep on power devices with technology acceleration partner Clas-SiC

Published: September 15, 2022

Oxford Instruments, UK, who recently launched its SiC substrate contactless plasma polishing solution to supersede the established chemical mechanical planarization process with a clean, dry, lower cost, higher yield, and sustainable alternative, announced it qualified whole wafer 1200V MOSFET devices with the process collaborating with Clas-SiC, further boosting confidence in the new solution and its impact on SiC power semiconductor devices.

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Park Systems opens new eastern regional applications lab at Northeastern University in Boston

Published: September 15, 2022

Park Systems, Korea, a world-leading supplier of atomic force microscopes announced the opening of its new Eastern Regional Lab at Northeastern University's 14-acre Innovation Campus in Burlington, Mass.

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3D nanoprinting using semiconductor quantum dots to create optoelectrical materials

Published: September 15, 2022

Researchers in China from Tsinghua University and Jilin University developed a new 3D nanoprinting technique using semiconducting quantum dots.

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Open-source software enables researchers to visualize nanoscale structures in real time

Published: September 15, 2022

A University of Michigan-led team of engineers and software developers developed a new beta version of tomviz, an open-source 3D data visualization tool software that connects directly to an electron microscope, enabling researchers to see and manipulate 3D visualizations of nanomaterials in real time, and is already used by tens of thousands of researchers.

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New cathode design solves major barrier to better lithium-ion batteries

Published: September 15, 2022

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill., made another lithium-ion battery breakthrough with the NMC cathode, finding a boundary-free electrode structure eliminates reactions that diminish battery life.

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Baylor chemist/materials scientist part of MagLab research to develop roadmap to new quantum materials

Published: September 01, 2022

Researchers from Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Fla., published a review article that connects several decades of research on a family of intermetallic crystalline materials to find practical ways to design strongly correlated electronic, magnetic, and superconducting phenomena.

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Women In Engineering: Ingrid M Padilla Espinosa

Published: August 30, 2022

This profile series introduces materials scientists from around the world who happen to be females. Here we speak with Ingrid M. Padilla Espinosa, postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Merced.     What part of your job do you like most? I love doing research because it challenges me. I get to learn new things all... View Article

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First atomic view of a quantum electronic device in operation

Published: August 18, 2022

For the first time, a team of scientists from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and Hewlett Packard Labs have used ultrafast electron diffraction, an ultrafast camera to observe for the first time the atomic and electronic movements as miniature vanadium dioxide-based switches operated.

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