A new way to switch transistors could overcome the power consumption and undesirable current leakage problems encountered in conventional nanoscale field-effect devices. The new technique, which works ...

Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with zero resistance, usually only at very low temperatures. Most ...

A new atomically-thick strain sensor is 100 times more sensitive than commercial devices and 10 times more sensitive than alternative versions based on graphene. According to its developers at China’s ...

Strain engineering precisely tunes van der Waals materials' electronic and optical properties for flexible electronics. This ...