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New Strategy to Resolve Contact Resistance Problem in 2D Semiconductors

Driven by the ever-increasing desires of the consumer market for smaller, lighter and smarter devices, the size of consumer electronics such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, have been continually shrinking while becoming more powerful in terms of performance over the years.

4 Jun 2020

2D Material Membrane Enables Easier Oil Separation

A team of researchers at the University of Manchester has developed a new technology that will address one of the biggest issues in membrane technology.

27 Feb 2020

Time-resolved Imaging of Magnetic Nano ‘Tornadoes’ in 3D

An international team of scientists has established a new method of three-dimensional imaging that can demonstrate the fast-moving waves and ‘tornadoes' within magnets in 3D for the very first time.

25 Feb 2020

Imec Shows Excellent Performance in Ultra-Scaled FETs with 2D-Material Channel

At this year’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (Dec 7-11 2019), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, reports an in-depth study of scaled transistors with MoS2 and demonstrates best device performance to date for such materials.

From IMEC 10 Dec 2019

Atomically Thin Minerals Show Promise as Proton Conducting Membranes for Green Technologies

Researchers at The University of Manchester discovered that atomically- thin micas – the name given to a type of common mineral found in soil – are excellent proton conductors.

17 Sep 2019

Direct After-Fabrication Tailoring of MoS2-FET transistors

Transition metal dichalcogenides are discrete 2D atomically thin layers bound together by Van der Waals forces.

9 Jul 2019

Localized Excitons in 2D Materials for Integrated Quantum Optics

NUS scientists have found that the oxygen interstitials in single-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe2) enable it to function as single photon emitters (SPEs) for quantum optical applications.

9 Jul 2019

Highly Complex Two-Dimensional Tessellation in the Molecular World

NUS scientists have developed a method to construct highly complex molecular tessellations using a single molecular building block.

12 Feb 2019

Creating a Roadmap for 2-D Materials

The rapid growth of research on 2-D materials – materials such as graphene and others that are a single or few atoms thick – is fueled by the hope of developing better performing sensors for health and environment, more economical solar energy, and higher performing and more energy efficient electronics than is possible with current silicon electronics.

From The Graphene Council 7 Feb 2019

Using Nanoporous Graphene for Smart Filters and Sensors

Researchers have now developed uniformly nanoporous graphene as part of a national research collaboration in Spain. A significant step in graphene research, it will help us to explore the full potential of the material in electronics, filtration and sensing applications.

16 Apr 2018