Boosting the performance of solar cells, transistors, LEDs, and batteries will require better electronic materials, made from novel compositions that have yet to be discovered. To speed up the search ...

A new computer vision technique developed by engineers significantly speeds up the characterization of newly synthesized electronic materials. Such materials might be used in novel solar cells, ...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials that can be applied to modern technologies in energy storage, gas separation, carbon dioxide capture, catalysis, and many other areas. There are an ...

The Biden Administration announced billions in CHIPS Act subsidies, likely boosting future sales of chipmaking equipment. But OpenAI's Sam Altman one-upped the government, as he's looking to raise ...

How do you find novel materials with very specific properties - for example, special electronic properties which are needed for quantum computers? This is usually a very complicated task: various ...

A modern computer contains two different types of components: magnetic components, which perform memory functions, and semiconductor components, which perform logic operations. Computer scientists are ...

As she walks around the lab of Rigetti Computing, quantum engineer Sabrina Hong strains to make her voice heard over a loud pumping noise. It’s the heartbeat of helium refrigerators cooling down the ...

Why can’t a computer both play chess and recognize images familiar to most people? It’s a simple question that cuts to the core of the biggest challenges in computing today: Despite their immense ...

Over the years, the computer-human interaction field has seen many trends. For a time, gesture and pen-based interactions were key, then with the rising ubiquity of smartphones came a focus on haptic ...

Magnetic materials are extremely difficult to find. They're rare in nature, and creating one in the lab usually involves both a lot of experimentation and a little luck. Duke University, however, has ...

London-based stock research shop New Street announced last night it is upgrading AMD stock from neutral to buy, with a $215 price target implying it expects the shares to rise 28% through the end of ...