Gallium nitride, a semiconductor that revolutionized energy-efficient LED lighting, could also transform electronics and wireless communication, thanks to a discovery made by...
An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in a solid can convert heat to energy even...
A common greenhouse gas could be repurposed in an efficient and environmentally friendly way with an electrolyzer that uses renewable electricity to...
Researchers at KU Leuven and imec have successfully developed a new technique to insulate microchips. The technique uses metal-organic frameworks, a new...
After years of tackling numerous design and manufacturing challenges, MIT researchers have built a modern microprocessor from carbon nanotube transistors, which are...
To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send...
They crush ‘em. They pierce ‘em. They roast ‘em, soak ‘em in saltwater and short circuit ‘em. They overcharge and even over-discharge...
All-solid-state batteries have gained attention as the next major advance beyond lithium-ion batteries because of their potential to store more energy while...
UC Berkeley researchers just broke another record in photovoltaic efficiency, an achievement that could lead to an ultralight engine that can power...
The future of faster, more efficient information processing may come down to light rather than electricity. Mark Lawrence, a postdoctoral scholar in...
The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels – and anything else that loses energy through heat...
A team of EPFL researchers has developed tiny 10-gram robots that are inspired by ants: they can communicate with each other, assign...
Changes to the Robobee — including an additional pair of wings and improvements to the actuators and transmission ratio — made the...
Multi-junction solar cells are both the most efficient type of solar cell on the market today and the most expensive type of...
A protective layer of epoxy resin helps prevent the leakage of pollutants from perovskite solar cells (PSCs), report scientists from the Okinawa...