This video explains the fundamental concepts of semiconductors and how they enable modern electronics. It covers the ...

An international team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), Tohoku University (Japan), and École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) has made a significant discovery in semiconductor ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

Researchers have discovered how unstructured segments of surface proteins regulate the biological function of a cell. Their ...

Any network device powered via PoE is known as a powered device or PD, with common examples including wireless access points, IP security cameras, and VoIP phones. These devices receive both data and ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.

A spinel-type sulfide semiconductor that can emit light from violet to orange at room temperature has been developed by researchers at Science Tokyo, overcoming the efficiency limitations of current ...

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