Tiny gears that twist light will enable optical computing with a huge bandwidth when 250,000 of them are printed on one square millimetre of a microchip. Lasers on a microchip are
01-02-2019
A polymer that would enable a doubling of energy efficiency of existing organic electronics has been developed, enabling a much wider use of the technology. Organic light emitting
28-01-2019
The minute electrodes needed for microfluidic biosensors can be 3D printed and scientists hope an open source approach will improve their performance. For analysing cells and their
18-01-2019
A material called a Weyl sonic crystal that can reflect sound or light is expected to aid photonic electronics because it can reflect a beam light back to its source as a mirror im
10-01-2019
Microchips and organic LEDs that deliver 4K-like high resolution displays a quarter of the size and half the weight of existing virtual reality (VR) headsets have been developed un
08-01-2019
Multiple colours, or frequencies of light, for photonic computing are expected to speed up the devices compared to the single channel, colour technology today. Each light frequency
18-12-2018
A flexible mobile phone or a wearable biomedical device could be the outcome of a polymer film that uses pigment to conduct electricity at higher levels than other conducting plast
10-12-2018
A printed bonding layer up to 120 microns thick on the back of microchips could enable a heat sink that keeps processors 10 degrees Celsius cooler than comparable systems today. He
03-12-2018
In a year’s time electronic integrated circuit designers will be able to download a programme to help them design and which will send back data to its developers to improve machine
23-11-2018
