Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that Switzerland’s école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has purchased a BM NOVO system. The versatile tool, which can produce ...
Tags: 2D Materials, Deposition System
Three University of California, Riverside researchers are part of team recently awarded a grant of almost $1.7m from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to characterize, analyze and synthesize a new class of ultra-thin-film materials ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics
These LEDs are based off of semiconductors that emit light with the movement of electrons. As devices get smaller and faster, there is more demand for such semiconductors that are tinier, stronger and more energy efficient. University of ...
Tags: semiconductors, three-dimensional LEDs, two-dimensional materials
One of the inconvenient truths about fuel cells for powering automobiles—a key to the establishment of the so-called hydrogen economy—is that it is extremely costly and energy intensive to isolate hydrogen gas. The last couple ...
Tags: Gas Production, Hydrogen Gas, nanomaterials
Users from Northwestern University, working with the Center for Nanoscale Materials EMMD Group at Argonne, have demonstrated the first growth of graphene on a silver substrate. Unique wave-like electron scattering at the edges of the ...
Some people believe that developing new manufacturing techniques for na noscale devices, like new types of epitaxy in which crystals are grown on a substrate, may in fact be more critical to producing the next generations of chips than ...
Tags: two-dimensional hybrid material, graphene, boron nitride
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an exfoliation method for the two-dimensional (2D) material molybdenum disulfide that leads to crystals of the substance becoming high quality monolayer flakes. These ...
Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene in a new collaborative project. The proposal, which will involve researchers from the Universities of ...