Materials Processing News
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TU Delft Researchers Explore Quantum Properties In The 2D Limit
12/21/2017
As electronic components become smaller and smaller, understanding how materials behave at the nanoscale is crucial for the development of next-generation electronics.
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NCSU Develops Metal Printing Technique For Flexible, Stretchable Electronics
12/20/2017
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for directly printing metal circuits, creating flexible, stretchable electronics. The technique can use multiple metals and substrates and is compatible with existing manufacturing systems that employ direct printing technologies.
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Researchers Finally Prove Existence Of Excitonium, A New Form Of Matter
12/11/2017
Scientists using a newly developed spectroscopic technique have finally proven the existence of excitonium, a new form of matter first theorized almost half a century ago.
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Improving The Femtosecond Ultrashort Pulse Laser
11/20/2017
MXenes, conductive materials widely used in many industries, now have one more promising application: helping lasers fire extremely short femtosecond pulses, which last just millionths of a billionth of a second.
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Israeli Researchers Successfully Hide Optical Chip Under ‘Cloak Of Invisibility’
11/16/2017
Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) are proposing a new method to obscure an optical chip by bending light around the object. This could be achieved by manipulating waves in the near field region (such as surface plasmons) of a metamaterial surface (a metasurface) on an integrated photonic structure.
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MIT Researchers Use Chalcogenides To Stretch And Integrate Photonic Devices
11/9/2017
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are using chalcogenide glasses to produce flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) that can stretch or conform to the shape of an object or structure without damage, and to better integrate two-dimensional (2D) materials with conventional semiconductor circuits.
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Metal-Silicone Microstructures Could Enable New Types Of Flexible Optical And Electrical Devices
11/1/2017
For the first time, researchers have used a single-step, laser-based method to produce small, precise hybrid microstructures of silver and flexible silicone.
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Terahertz Spectroscopy Now Possible At The Nanoscale
10/23/2017
Researchers at Brown University have developed a modified method of laser terahertz emission microscopy (LTEM) to image, for the first time, individual nanostructures of materials being analyzed.
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Extraordinarily Strong Nonlinear Optical Graphene-Like Material Could Renovate Nonlinear Photonics
10/23/2017
Nonlinear optics is a key enabling technology of our modern society, such as in imaging and high-speed data communication.
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Flexible Hybrid Electronics Advancing, Spurred By Dual-Use Technology Development
7/17/2017
Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) is a category of microelectronics using novel materials with stretchable, conformable, and flexible form factors. FHE enables wearables, medical Internet of Things (IoT) applications, defense applications, and more by shifting from electronics based on rigid and fragile circuit boards to flexible electronics components mounted on substrates, such as plastics and textiles.