Reading Steve Leibson’s comment on the relatively recent use of crystals for electronics reference frequencies made me remember my lab partner at UC Irvine in the 70s, who was an amazing ham guy, ...

Scientists have shown that twisting a crystal at the nanoscale can turn it into a tiny, reversible diode, hinting at a new era of shape-engineered electronics.

The usage of fans and liquid cooling to keep our devices cool enough to operate may one day vanish, thanks to a crystal invented to replace these systems. According to researchers from the University ...

Parades dancing through the streets are common during celebrations like Mardi Gras. And now, it may become more common in electronics like your smart phone too, thanks to newly published research from ...

I always look at boring old USB drives and ask, “Why can’t these be jewel-encrusted?” Ditto for my run-of-the-mill earbuds, which seem to lack some kind of large embedded crystal. Believe it or not, ...

(Nanowerk News) Silicon has been the workhorse of electronics for decades because it is a common element, is easy to process, and has useful electronic properties. A limitation of silicon is that high ...

In a study published in Nature, scientists from Johns Hopkins University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Washington have discovered a new class of quantum states in a ...

Giving us further hope for a future without silicon circuitry, researchers have shown that transparent, photoconductive crystals can become conductors in when exposed to light. So much so in fact, ...

Computer chips and storage elements are expected to function as quickly as possible and be energy-saving at the same time. Innovative spintronic modules are at an advantage here thanks to their high ...

Researchers polished single-crystal diamond to near-atomic smoothness without damaging it. This will improve the performance and sustainability of future electronics. Silicon has been the workhorse of ...