Electronic properties news, January 2023

Masked silicon gives rise to perfect 2D crystals

Researchers have developed a novel method that allows them to grow pure, defect-free 2D materials on industrial silicon wafers.

Zirconium oxide thin films promise next-generation memory

thin films of zirconium oxide could enable a next generation of low-voltage and -power nonvolatile memory and other nanoscale devices

Screen printing wearable electronics for the good of our health

Electrode screen-printing process for health monitoring

Edible electronics get a step closer

Italian researchers look to cellulose and carbon for ingestible devices

Microbatteries made more powerful

Improved high-voltage, hermetically sealed microbattery design

First detection of excitons in a topological insulator

Breakthrough in light-driven microelectronic devices

MXene flips switch on electromagnetic shielding

Researchers have shown that the electromagnetic wave jamming of the 2D material MXene can be dynamically contolled by aplying a small voltage.

Materials Today 2022 Innovation Award Webinar: Presented by Prof. Zhenan Bao

Screen-printed electrodes could rock health monitoring

Researchers have developed an easy and cheap method for producing wearable electrodes entirely by screen-printing.

Electrons can provide the ‘glue’ between 2D materials

Researchers have discovered that electrons play a surprising role in how energy is transferred between layers of 2D semiconductor materials.

Cuts take the strain in new stretchable sensor

Researchers have developed a stretchable strain sensor that is both sensitive and capable of withstanding significant deformation.

Salt and solvent give rise to ionocaloric cooling

A new method of heating and cooling called ‘ionocaloric cooling’ uses the movement of ions to induce a phase change in a mixture of salt and solvent.

Shrinking hydrogels enlarge nanofabrication options

A novel nanobrafication method works by creating the 3D pattern of a material in a hydrogel and then shrinking it down to the nanoscale.

Graphene edges towards a new nanoelectronics platform

The combination of a novel form of graphene and silicon carbide crystals could offer a platform for replacing silicon in nanoelectronics.