Standford researchers developed an ultrafast nanoscale light emitting diode 2,000 times energy efficient
A group of young research students at School of Engineering from Standford has developed an ultrafast nanoscale light-emitting diode (LED) that is able to...
Living Cell Signals Recorded with Grapheme Transistor Array
The graphene based transistor array and its layer of biological cells that it covers it is now showed due to a combination of optical...
Converting the kinetic energy from wing movements of the insect into electricity
Professor Khalil Najafi, the chair of electrical and computer engineering, and doctoral student Erkan Aktakka are finding ways to harvest energy from insects, and...
Converting the energy of waste heat occurring in integrated circuits
The heat which occurs in tiny computer processors might soon be no longer useless or even a problem. On the contrary: It could be...
Logic gates built from bacteria and DNA
Steps toward biological computing are completed by creation of logic gates from gut bacteria and DNA.
"Logic gates are the fundamental building blocks in silicon...
Nanoparticles can be counted now
Scientists from the Sweden’s Gothenburg University have shown the possibility to sort and count particles or aggregates formed by particles.
As already know naonparticles of...
Display screens with colored solar cells
A new kind of screen pixel doubles as a solar cell and could boost the energy efficiency of cell phones and e-readers. The technology...
How to bring sunlight into your home
The science of light and liquids has been intimately entwined since Léon Foucault discovered the speed of light in 1862, when he observed that...
New cheap nanomaterial to convert heat into electricity
Waste heat is a byproduct of nearly all electrical devices and industrial processes, from driving a car to flying an aircraft or operating a...
Super fast internet and graphene
What can you get when you combine graphene with metallic nanostructures? Improved harvesting light by graphene, which could potentially lead to super-fast Internet, a...