Electronics
Future electronics may depend on lasers, not quartz
22 Jul 2014
Future high-end navigation systems, radar systems, and even possibly tomorrow's consumer electronics will require references beyond the performance of quartz. Lasers may be the option.
A new way to harness waste heat
By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office | 23 May 2014
Engineers make world’s fastest organic transistor
11 Jan 2014
Researchers are collaborating to make thin, transparent semiconductors that could become the foundation for cheap, high-performance displays
A new step towards graphene-based electronics
14 Dec 2013
Low-cost thin film electronics
By By Robert Perkins | 23 Nov 2013
Dolphins inspire new radar system
26 Oct 2013
Inspired by how dolphins hunt with bubble nets, engineers in the UK have developed a new kind of radar that can detect hidden surveillance equipment and explosives
Scientists untangle nanotubes to release their potential in electronics industry
By By Dr Ling Ge, DPhil (Oxon.) FRI MRSC, Simon Levey | 21 Oct 2013
Spirals of light may lead to better electronics
30 Sep 2013
Scientists use DNA to assemble transistor from graphene
By By Tom Abate, Stanford Engineering | 28 Sep 2013
Graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arrayed in a honeycomb pattern, could be a better semiconductor than silicon
Engineers develop a stretchable, foldable transparent electronic display
By By Matthew Chin | 24 Sep 2013
Graphene could yield cheaper optical chips
By By Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office | 16 Sep 2013
Mobile devices that could disrupt memory market
10 Aug 2013
The next generation of smartphones could be capable of storing 250 hours of HD video and carrying a charge for a week thanks to an advanced data storage technology
Japan launches talking robot Kirobo into outer space
05 Aug 2013
Japan yesterday launched Kirobo, a 13-inch talking robot that can also recognise faces, into outer space to keep International Space Station crew company.