Scientists have created a new type of material that could enable common electronic devices to work faster and use less energy ...

A new technical paper “High Pressure and Compositionally Directed Route to a Hexagonal GeSn Alloy Class” was published by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for ...

New findings show germanium-tin alloys could surpass silicon by enabling efficient spintronic, photonic, and quantum device integration. (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers from ...

Electronics waste energy when handling light and electricity. A new material helps reduce this loss and improve system ...

Scientists have created a new type of material that could enable common electronic devices to work faster and use less energy, a study suggests.

Reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, scientists from the University of Edinburgh demonstrate their novel material, which could serve as a highly effective semiconductor, a ...

Researchers from Edinburgh University, the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, the University of Lille, Grenoble Alpes University, the University of Bayreuth and the European Synchrotron facility ...

(Nanowerk News) The latest generations of computer chips are only a few nanometres in size and are becoming ever more energy-saving and powerful as a result of progressive miniaturisation. Since the ...

Researchers have produced a germanium–tin material that behaves as a semiconductor, demonstrating a synthesis route that overcomes longstanding difficulties in combining the two elements. The team, ...

Why it matters: Electronic devices, which encompass anything from mobile phones to data centers, are notorious energy hogs. One solution could be to harness their heat directly to create a technique ...